With 23 short essays on creatures ranging from the wombat to the spider, Katherine Rundell's new book is essential reading ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

A Japanese company just built a wooden satellite and sent it to space in order to test the material’s durability. This could ...

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

As we stand on the cusp of unprecedented breakthroughs, the fusion of AI and space technology is poised to reshape our ...

The international community has made some headway on pledges to protect 30% of the Earth by 2030 but progress must accelerate ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

2024 may be a record-shattering year of intense heat, not just for us humans, but also for our planet. In this very year, we ...

The new Atlas of the Human Planet reveals 50 years of global population growth and urbanization trends, providing insights ...

Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, as well as damage ...