The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the University of California, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the ...

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind ...

Big tech is increasingly looking to space as the next base for data and infrastructure to prevent overwhelming Earth's ...

Over the past 50 years, geographers have embraced each new technological shift in geographic information systems (GIS)—the ...

From shifting continents to a dying sun, the future of our planet is full of dramatic changes. This video takes you through the billion-year timeline scientists have modeled for Earth’s fate.

In a world deluged by dire environmental news and seemingly short on scalable solutions, a recent report spotlights ten ...

The lines of artificial coastal developments might be neat and straight but in reality, they are fragmenting ecosystems and ...

As of 2027, new satellites for CO2 measurement (CO2M) will be launched into orbit. Originally, only two were planned—but ...

As geopolitical tensions continue and rare earths supply chain vulnerabilities deepen, the US is redrawing the global map of critical mineral sourcing; Australia is emerging as a cornerstone ...

MANKATO — The Blue Earth County Board continued its work Tuesday of solidifying plans for the future of waste management in the county. The board held a discussion that included a review of previous ...

During a recent appearance at Italian Tech Week, Amazon founder and Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos predicted that within the next 10 to 20 years, humanity will begin constructing gigawatt-scale, ...

Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic plates kept a steady ...