As we prepare to look for life in other solar systems, we should also look inward at what we’re doing to our home planet.

The deficit of this isotope is now thought to mean that some of the oldest rocks on Earth are actually remnants of our planet ...

Tropical forests may heal themselves faster and cheaper than tree planting, offering a natural path to restore carbon and ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

A new study challenges the long-held idea that dinosaurs were already on the verge of extinction when a giant asteroid struck ...

As the only known planet capable of supporting life, Earth had quite the rocky start, with no aid to sustain life. The presence of liquid water and a stable atmosphere did not exist when the planet ...

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution had shockingly high contents of lead, which may have been the ...

It’s day 25. You wake up in your bunk pod in a snow-capped Martian landscape, far from civilization. Outside it’s ...

China has unveiled a working prototype of its global defense system, named 'Golden Dome'. This advanced platform can track ...

A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across ...

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The Outer Worlds 2 imbues Obsidian's spacefaring RPG series with its own identity, letting you bumble your way through ...