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These false-color images of the NEOWISE comet show the concentration of sodium atoms in the comet’s dusty ion tail. Astronomers created the images using the I / O facilities of the Planetary Science Institute near Tucson, Arizona. The image on the left shows the light reflected from the comet dust, …

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) is not the only spacecraft that is observing comets these days. PSP broke a beautiful image of the bright comet NEOWISE on July 5, two days after the icy bum hit perihelion, its closest approach to the sun. The PSP photo clearly shows twin tails …

Moderna’s shares rose 12% on Wednesday after the biotech company released promising data on its potential coronavirus vaccine trial, saying it generated a “robust” immune response. The vaccine candidate produced neutralizing antibodies, which scientists believe is important for developing immunity to the virus, in the 45 patients evaluated in the …

Media playback is not supported on your device Media captionBoris Johnson says there will be an independent investigation, but now is not the time Boris Johnson has first committed to an “independent investigation” into the coronavirus pandemic. The prime minister said it was not correct to spend “large amounts of …

Climate models suggest that continued increases in methane levels could cause global temperatures to rise 3 to 4 degrees Celsius by 2100, researchers at the Global Carbon Project said in a statement released Wednesday. The researchers analyzed methane emissions from 2000 to 2017, the latest year for which complete global …