Scientists have discovered helium-3 beneath northern Minnesota, a rare isotope once thought to exist mainly on the Moon.

Earth’s rotation is slowly slowing, scientists say, meaning days are getting longer, though the change takes millions of ...

All complex aerobic life on Earth as we know it will eventually die as oxygen levels deplete in our planet’s atmosphere. Fortunately, that won’t happen for another billion years or so, according to an ...

What happens at the end of our world? Scientists have found an Earth-like planet orbiting a star 4,000 light years away from the solar system that may reveal our planet’s ultimate fate. The rocky ...

As the New Space sector becomes more robust, various industries are looking to push what is possible and encourage an innovative future that will allow humans to explore deeper into space. However, ...

Our 24-hour day measures Earth’s rotation relative to the Sun, known as a solar day. This is slightly longer than Earth’s ...

Whenever we see a shooting star, that’s a meteorite the size of a grain of dust hitting the Earth. But what if something much larger, around 10km across (the size of the asteroid that wiped out the ...

Meltwater from the Laohugou No. 12 glacier flows though China's Qilian Mountains on Sept. 27, 2020. (CNS photo/Carlos Garcia Rawlins, Reuters) Eric Holthaus experiences climate change as a wound, a ...

How can we reverse the effects of climate change in under 30 years? Read this solutions-focused book from Eric Holthaus with us this October. The Future Earth brings together a range of topics, ...

For more than three decades, climate scientists have accurately forecast how carbon emissions would cause a global rise in temperatures. Now they're looking ahead at the decades to come. When it comes ...

Émile Torres spends a lot of their time thinking about the end of the world as we know it — and how to avoid it. To some, this kind of theorizing and strategizing might seem like a grand exercise in ...