Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 each year, promoting environmental protection and awareness since 1970.

But as other industrialized nations make strides to reduce emissions, the US appears to be shifting into reverse. On the ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...

Conspiracy theories might feel like a modern phenomenon, but one has its roots in the flat landscape of the Cambridgeshire Fens and dates back nearly 200 years. Camay Chapman-Cameron, who lives in ...

Researchers have detected in an alien planet’s atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes ...

A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps excursion.

Additionally, ancient humans may have ramped up their use of ochre. This naturally occurring pigment is composed of iron ...

A solar superstorm, strong enough to cause an 'internet apocalypse', knock out satellites and cripple clean water supplies ...

The spaceflights are ones billionaire Jeff Bezos's space technology company has been offering since 2021. This time, six ...

In Svalbard, it's a bit chilly where polar bears roam, but on the other side of the planet in Africa, elephants are bathing in sunshine. (Six episodes) ...

Aakash Ranison’s Below2° is a haunting art installation that shows what rising temperatures are silently doing to our planet.