Earths

Late last month in Munich, engineers at the European aerospace firm Airbus showed off what might be the future of…

When dark matter is captured inside a planet or star, much of it sinks to the middle – but if…

In an effort to learn more about potentially hazardous asteroids, astronomers have used telescopic surveys to find an image of…

Experiments on Earth mimicking the rays from a red dwarf star show that cyanobacteria, algae and moss can grow under…

To say that ants outnumber people on Earth would be a gross understatement. According to a new study, there are…

From melting ice sheets to stressed coral reefs, global warming is changing our world in unmistakable ways. But identifying “tipping…

Studying the atmospheres of Venus and Mars can help us learn how Earth’s climate will look in the future, says…

Increasing numbers of space launches will put more black carbon high in the atmosphere, where it can trap heat from…

Bryan Keller via AP In this Sept. 2015 photo taken by Colby Griffiths on the North Edisto River in South…

IMAGE: Zircons studied by the research team, photographed using cathodoluminescence, a technique that allowed the team to visualize the interiors of…