When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Less research on environmental risks means we will be forced to operate with an incomplete understanding of those risks.

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.

The team found that the planet, dubbed HIP 67522 b, orbits its parent star so tightly that it appears to cause frequent ...

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

In the late 18th and 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution created demand for stronger, more reliable materials for machines, railroads, ships and infrastructure. The material that emerged was ...

Space debris is cluttering low Earth orbit, posing a growing threat to satellites, space stations, and future missions. Experts warn that collisions with abandoned rockets and dead satellites ...

In about 4.5 billion years, the Sun will enter its red giant phase, swallowing Mercury and Venus and rendering Earth uninhabitable. This radical transformation will push the habitable zone toward the ...

Despite being fairly unknown to the broader public, Mister Terrific has a fascinating DC Comics history worth reading.

An allegorical and symbolic drama, X & Y opens not with a face, but a voice — the 'Mother of the Universe', instructing a soul to descend to Earth and find a st ...

We love sci-fi movies for their bold ideas that help us imagine the future of the Earth and life on distant planets. But sometimes we come across film ...