From the first Mercury missions to today’s commercial crew flights, the United States has repeatedly turned to Florida’s ...

A radio signal has been detected, pointing to the possible existence of a magnetic field on YZ Ceti b, an exoplanet 12 ...

Hakuto-r captures a rare “terrestrial sunrise” during a total eclipse just before crashing into the Moon, revealing the ...

Host Chris Morgan speaks with environmental author Ferris Jabr about his book Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life ...

Since humanity's first steps on the moon, the aspiration to extend human civilization beyond Earth has been a central ...

In the fall of 1659, Christiaan Huygens observed the opposition of Mars, drawing what he saw. The result was the first ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world with enough force to melt vast portions of its mantle and scatter a huge ...

Olivier Leger is an ocean wildlife artist based in the UK. His intricately detailed paintings and drawings tell stories of ...

Discover the 'livable planet' model, a transformative and hopeful vision for addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

The view of Earth from space is famously familiar—bright blue ocean, swirling gyres of white clouds, touches of terrestrial green. The luminosity of this image is the result of the sun’s rays shining ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to remnants of “proto Earth” ...

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical processes on Earth, leaving nothing from before. Or so we thought. Reading time 3 ...