Fahroni/Shutterstock Humans have overfished the ocean, cleared forests, polluted water and created a climate crisis by burning fossil fuels. These
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What lunar caves tell us about the shared origins of the Earth and the Moon
NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio / Ernie Wright Using radar, a Nasa spacecraft, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has confirmed the existence
If Earth gets sick, so do you
Alones/Shutterstock A hotter world is likely to be a sicker world. Earth’s growing fever has obvious repercussions for human health,
Small but mighty, plankton are some of the most powerful creatures on Earth
Choksawatdikorn/Shutterstock If you go to the beach and dip a bucket in the sea, you might at first think it
3 Body Problem: is the universe really a ‘dark forest’ full of hostile aliens in hiding?
We have no good reason to believe that aliens have ever contacted Earth. Sure, there are conspiracy theories, and some
Japan’s first moon lander is aiming for a very small target
As Japan’s space agency prepares for its first moon landing early on Saturday, it’s aiming to hit a very small
Earth shatters heat record, flirts with warming limit
Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of
Osiris-Rex: Nasa reveals evidence of water and carbon in sample delivered to Earth from an asteroid
The “coal-like” material from Bennu. Nasa / Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebers On September 24 this year, a Nasa capsule
How changing levels of iron shaped the evolution of life on Earth – and why alien hunters should take note
Early Earth on the left, had seas infused with life-enhancing iron, whereas Earth today, seen on the right, does not.