For decades, astronomers have seen the "before" and "after" of this process — when a planet is orbiting very close to its ...

Nathalie Cabrol's book, "The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life" ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...

Coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, can cause both the northern lights and widespread telecommunications disruptions. But could ...

ASTEROIDS are constantly passing Earth – and every once in a while some make a direct hit. Fortunately, the latter are all ...

On another worrying note, scientists found the planet is close to breaching a seventh planetary boundary: ocean acidification. In its first edition, a report from the Potsdam Institute for Climate ...

Years of research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have outlined nine processes that help to keep ...

The world's oceans are becoming too acidic to support life, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has said. The ...

Research published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters reveals that supernovae release iron isotopes into space.

Beyond Barriers writer Sophie Morgan on what it means to be the first British paraplegic woman to experience a zero-gravity ...

New research finds ocean's twilight zone bacteria adapt to iron deficiency by producing siderophores, aiding carbon cycling.