The Gemini South telescope in Chile has been used by astronomers to detect a planet being devoured by its dying host star, a ...

As climate change, poverty, and environmental collapse threaten life on Earth, governments and billionaires are pouring ...

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

If everything had gone to plan, an uncrewed Soviet-era spacecraft would have landed on Venus in 1972 to conduct a few hours of operations before dying ... around Earth. The vehicle's orbit has slowly ...

Three elderly House Democrats died in just three months, helping to give Speaker Mike Johnson the slim margin needed to pass ...

Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm force winds, and created a waterfall 30 times taller than Niagara.

Wildlife rangers are being killed at a rate of nearly two a week, and it’s a toll Prince William has said the world can no ...

The universe is poised to die much faster than previously thought, according to new research by Dutch scientists.

In September 2024, the Amazon’s worst drought in generations hit Paraizinho, a small riverside community that depends on the once-reliable Madeira River. Crops withered. Wells ran dry. The river, ...

The world's largest trees are dying, meaning that they ... With 60,000 known tree species on Earth, those shifts are playing out differently across the planet. In central Europe, for instance ...

The universe is poised to die much faster than previously thought, according to new research by Dutch scientists. But there’s no great need to panic. We still have 10 to the power of 78 years ...