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NASA releases close-up pictures of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

NASA is unveiling close-up pictures of the interstellar comet that's making a quick one-and-done tour of our solar system.

UN secretary general urges nations at climate talks to be flexible to get results

By Seth Borenstein, Melina Walling, Anton L. Delgado, Associated Press

Asked whether U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres had a message for President Donald Trump, who has pulled the world's second-largest carbon polluter out of climate talks: “We are waiting for you.”…

A Brief But Spectacular take on finding a place where you belong

By Brief But Spectacular

Sometimes, the right learning environment can change everything. For Courtney Irwin, that place was a youth development center in Salinas, California. She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on how cooking and community helped her find her way.

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COP30 host Brazil pushes for progress on big issues

By Melina Walling, Seth Borenstein, Anton L. Delgado, Associated Press

As United Nations climate talks bubble to a critical point, negotiators on Tuesday were pressured to ensure that oil — along with fossil fuels coal and natural gas — won't be burned in the future.

Use of artificial intelligence both praised and criticized at COP30 climate talks in Brazil

By Anton L. Delgado, Associated Press

One expert calls AI an "completely unregulated beast around the world," while another calls it "so democratizing," but both sides agree AI is here to stay.

Disaster-battered nations tell ministers at climate talks to start taking action

By Seth Borenstein, Anton L. Delgado, Melina Walling, Associated Press

Their message: Our lives are on the line.

Key takeaways from COP30 halfway through the UN climate summit

By John Yang, Kaisha Young, Juliet Fuisz

This weekend is the halfway point for the 30th U.N. climate summit known as COP30. In a report issued days before the meeting began, the World Meteorological Organization said 2025 is “on track to be among the three warmest years…

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NASA’s latest ESCAPADE is sending twin low-cost orbiters to examine Mars’ atmosphere

By Christopher Carr, Glenn Lightsey, The Conversation

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, mission will help unleash.

1,140-square-foot super-web reveals the surprising ‘constant party’ life of cohabiting spiders

By Stephen McGrath, Associated Press

The most surprising thing about a spider colony discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border — housing tens of thousands of arachnids — had less to do with its size and more to do with what scientists found inside the…

Chinese astronauts return from space station after delay blamed on space debris damage

By Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press

The original return plan was scrapped because a window in the Shenzhou-20 capsule had tiny cracks, most likely caused by impact from space debris, the space agency said Friday.