2025-04-26

Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is Quietly Revolutionizing the Energy System

This energy storage technology is harnessing the potential of solar and wind power—and its deployment is growing exponentially. [...]

2025-04-26

Astronomers Say There's an Increased Possibility of Life on This Distant Planet

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet dubbed K2-18b. [...]

2025-04-25

A grim signal: Atmospheric CO2 soared in 2024

Scientists are worried because they can’t fully explain the big jump, but it might mean that carbon absorption is slowing down. [...]

2025-04-25

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Strange Rocks on Mars

A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red Planet. [...]

2025-04-25

Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible

Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever. [...]

2025-04-25

New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths

"Microlensing" lets us find planets at much greater distances from their star. [...]

2025-04-24

Amazon's Starlink Satellite Service Rival Has a Rocket Launch Set for Next Week

The first planned launch was scrapped due to the weather, but Project Kuiper has a new date. [...]

2025-04-24

Can I offer you a nice image of the Sun in these trying times?

The joint ESA and NASA Solar Orbiter mission has delivered a stunning new image of the Sun and its corona. The sun-observing satellite originally launched in 2020, and besides making the Sun look cool [...]

2025-04-24

Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. [...]