Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...

The Zoo Hypothesis suggests that aliens may deliberately avoid contact with Earth, observing the planet instead.

Low clouds matter most for albedo and sunlight reflection. They bounce a lot of sunlight back to space. Last year, low cloud ...

Uranus’s tiny moon Ariel may have had a subsurface ocean that made up around 55% of its total volume. By mapping craters, ...

New research challenges the idea that the hemispheres' matching brightness is a fundamental property of the planet ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...

The Origins Federation Conference gathered researchers across disciplines in the search for how life began on Earth—and maybe ...

Abby Martin’s new documentary feature, Earth’s Greatest Enemy, takes stock of the US war machine’s environmental damage, ...

Astronauts frequently report feeling the "overview effect": a recognition of beauty and unity. Neuroscience suggests that ...

A recently discovered exoplanet, a planet that exists beyond our solar system, called GJ 251c is a super-Earth located just 18 light-years away from our ...

Your every breath serves as a reminder that the atmosphere of Earth is silently carrying out its function. Since air is ...

A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...