This month, we covered a long-term analysis suggesting that landfill methane emissions may be far higher than estimated, as ...

SETI Institute scientist Uma Gorti co-authors one of the largest JWST studies of how planet-forming disks lose their gas ...

Life on Earth is thought to have emerged from the primordial ooze some four billion years ago. Now a provocative new study argues that this miraculous transition from chemistry to biology happened not ...

The work challenges the assumption that all life descended from one free-living cell. Instead, it suggests that two microbial lineages, the bacteria and archaea, evolved independently from a ...

Some scientists think that in five billion years, as the Sun ages and transforms into a Red Giant, Earth will be swallowed whole, effectively ending its 10-billion-year-long existence. However, due to ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — New research suggests Earth may survive the Sun’s final giant phases, challenging earlier predictions that our planet would eventually be swallowed by the aging star. In a study ...

A new study suggests that when our solar system’s star becomes unstable in 5 billion years or so, Earth may avoid being engulfed by its fiery demise. Scientists have long estimated that in about 5 ...

A first-of-its-kind study measured the extent to which bright constellations affect astronomers’ view of the night sky, setting a proposed limit to how many satellites should be in Earth’s orbit.

One day, far in the future, a leaf will turn brown and crumble to dust, representing the end of all plants on Earth. Without a crystal ball, nobody knows for certain when that day will come. A number ...

In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth’s oldest rocks lie beneath the sky, as they have for billions of years. They are dark, weathered volcanic rocks, close to 3.5 billion years old, cut ...

The Dynamic Atmosphere-Ionosphere Explorer, or DAPHNE, mission will study the interaction between space weather and the Earth's atmosphere. Credit: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics/Mary ...

Strong and consistent evidence shows that the entire climate system is continuing to heat, driving rapid global warming. Human activities pushed global warming to 1.37°C in 2025, and its level is ...