There's a billion-year gap in Earth's geological history. A new study seeks to explain the mystery.

Look up on a clear night and you'll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don't see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive.

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

A new study shows how simulated Mars dust affects tardigrades, offering insight into space farming and contamination risks.

Gregory Radisic is affiliated with the International Institute of Space Law, and the Institute on Space Law and Ethics at For All Moonkind Inc. Samantha Lawler receives funding from the Natural ...

Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway ...

When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in Cincinnati, Ohio. My grandfather joked that if I kept digging, I would end up in China. In fact, if I had been able to dig straight through the ...

A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make such a devastating tsunami. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

March is when gardeners' fingers start to really twitch. The sun's warmth and patches of bare earth make us yearn for the ...