How did life first start? Scientists hoping to answer that question are recreating the conditions of early Earth’s…
A unique view of the Moon, with its far side facing the camera and an unsettlingly tiny Earth lurking in the…
It may seem fantastical, but there is a living world deep, deep beneath our feet. Go below the soil, beyond the…
It might be the second half of November, but the wildfire season in California is now functionally approaching a 365-day…
Visions of the end of the world tend to extremes—the planet fatally fracked, flooded, hurricaned, nuke-cratered. No…
Some of the Earth’s oldest rocks may have formed from the high temperatures of meteorite impacts, a new study reports.
Renewable resources are great, but they bring a new element of uncertainty to a power grid. This element can lead to…
Venus might seem rather Earthly, given its similar size and presence of a thick, carbon dioxide-filled atmosphere. But…
Our planet is in a remarkably circular orbit around the Sun, but as new research points out, Earth’s orbit sometimes…
Hey, there’s another reason to shake our collective heads at everyone’s favorite generational punching bag. A recently-p…
Admit it, you don’t really understand why the Earth has a magnetic field. Sure, movement inside the Earth’s outer core…
Diamonds, the super-strong and brilliant crystals of carbon atoms produced under the Earth’s crushing pressures, are…
Perhaps there’s a life-supporting, Earth-like planet orbiting close to a red dwarf star many light years away. Perhaps…
Oh, that Van Allen Belt—online crackpots love to use Earth’s belt of radiation to bolster their Moon landing…
To reduce energy consumption, many jurisdictions around the world are transitioning to outdoor LED lighting. But as new…
Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate, reads the gates to the Inferno. “Abandon all hope, you who enter,” which is a…
If you made a building out of bricks and cinderblocks, then hundreds of years later you’d expect it to still be, well,…
Humans have had such a dramatic impact on Earth that some scientists say we’ve kickstarted a new geological era known…
With all the fascinating planets in our solar system, it sometimes feels like the Sun gets overlooked. The Sun is…
What was life really like here on planet Earth before animals were big enough to leave fossils behind? How did living…
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