Rahul Rao is a former intern and contributing science writer for Popular Science since early 2021. He covers physics, space, technology, and their intersections with each other and everything else ...

The mission was led by Luke Iseman, a 41-year-old serial entrepreneur with a mohawk hairstyle and an orange t-shirt that read "Cool Earth." Inspired by a science fiction novel, Iseman had founded ...

The mission was led by Luke Iseman, a 41-year-old serial entrepreneur with a mohawk hairstyle and an orange t-shirt that read "Cool Earth." Inspired by a science fiction novel, Iseman had founded ...

One of the team's first ideas was to deposit a platform that spits space dust out at the Lagrange point L1, which lies about 900,000 miles inside Earth's orbit, directly between the sun and the Earth.

While the concept of using diamond dust to cool the Earth may seem promising, the financial implications are staggering. The estimated cost of this geoengineering project is a jaw-dropping $200 ...

A controversial experiment to artificially cool Earth was canceled — what we know about why. Harvard’s canceled solar geoengineering project shows what happens when you try to test ...

Launching Dust From the Moon Could Help Cool Earth, Scientists Say Proposals to fight climate change by blocking sunlight aren’t new, but some experts argue the answer lies closer to home ...

SIMON: In the novel, a Texas billionaire shoots sulfur into the stratosphere - that's about six to 30 miles above Earth's surface - to combat global warming. And this is real science.