The increasing amount of debris has heightened fears about the "Kessler syndrome". Named after an American astrophysicist ...

Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Full credit at bottom of article Joe Spring and Carlyn Kranking This year, Smithsonian magazine published more than 900 science stories. Most of those appeared ...

Green life has often felt closer to the abiotic worlds of weather and ... as soulful as it is scientific: What does it mean to be alive? —Benjamin Cassidy Smithsonian magazine participates ...

Smithsonian magazine published more than 900 science stories. Most of those appeared in our Smart News Science section, but we also published more than 100 features, in addition to reprinting stellar ...

“We can’t wait to receive that first status update from the spacecraft and start receiving the science data in the coming weeks.” That data will help scientists better understand the Northern Lights ...

“It is a scientific fact,” he wrote ... children spend most of the school day in the woods, regardless of the weather. They learn whittling, fire starting, and denbuilding; they’re ...

Science started seriously studying lightning in the 1960s with ... In the past, when an electrical utility wanted to predict weather events such as lightning, utility managers had to keep an eye to ...

Over the past few decades, changes in weather patterns due to climate change or global ... While many people feel that anthropogenic influences are negligible, the scientific consensus is that the ...

Richard Alley, Lawrence Edwards and David Tilman were among the two dozen honorees who received the National Medal of Science ...

After another record-breaking year for global temperatures in 2024, pressure is rising on policymakers to step up efforts to ...

Thundersnow, also known as a winter thunderstorm, happens when a snowstorm is accompanied by thunder and lightning. As of ...