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

A new assessment of Earth’s life-support systems shows that six out of nine of these crucial processes have crossed their “planetary boundary.” These boundaries are not tipping points—it ...

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

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

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

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

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

Hot from a July day backpacking in the West Elk Mountains near Gunnison, I stopped at a spring and used my bare hands to ...

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.

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...