Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Earth system models have been overestimating natural nitrogen fixation by about 50%, overstating the strength of Earth’s future carbon sink.

Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are ...

Émile Torres spends a lot of their time thinking about the end of the world as we know it — and how to avoid it. To some, this kind of theorizing and strategizing might seem like a grand exercise in ...

The project collects troves of data from the best climate models around the world – and the newest update to it is now underway.

Our Sun, that steady burning ball of gas that has faithfully illuminated Earth for billions of years, is slowly but ...

For the first time — and in our own Milky Way galaxy — scientists were able to watch in real time as a dying star sucked a “Jupiter-sized world” into its blazing core. The stunning act of celestial ...

Colombia has several areas of high biological diversity in the Andean ecosystems, with a wide variety of endemic species, found nowhere else on Earth, as well as the Amazon rainforests and unique ...

What does the Earth mean to you? It is a simple question that barely anyone asks themselves. Is it home? A resource? Is it merely a blue marble in a vast universe where a few sentient beings got lucky ...

Warning! Warning! Spoilers for Star Trek #22 ahead! IDW's expansive, ambitious Star Trek ongoing series has offered readers a glimpse of what it describes as the "eventual reality" of Earth. While the ...