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Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians. The ...

World leaders arriving at UN Headquarters for this week’s High-Level General Assembly meetings will be greeted by a powerful and striking new mural from renowned Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra, ...

Theia' is a long-vanished world, a planet-sized body thought to have smashed into the early Earth and that helped to form the ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

Scientists are often left piecing together tiny clues to understand how our planet formed. One of the biggest mysteries is ...

Complex life may be rare due to many necessary conditions like a stable star and planet. Earth's location in the galaxy minimizes exposure to harmful radiation. Jupiter's gravity may have protected ...

A terrestrial planet hovering between Mars and Jupiter would be able to push Earth out of the solar system and wipe out life on this planet, according to a recent experiment. A terrestrial planet ...