New Guinea is staggeringly rich in life. Occupying just 0.5% of Earth’s land surface, it hosts an estimated 5-8% of all ...

The 2020 Underwater Photographer of the Year contest (UPY) has just crowned its winners. More than 5,500 images were ...

Astronomers discovered a "quasi-satellite" of Earth, also known as a "quasi-moon," dubbed 2025 PN7 in 2025. NASA told Snopes ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

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Earth reaches its closest point to the sun in its 2026 orbit on Jan. 3. The sun will appear larger in the sky than on any ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

The UK’s CarbSAR satellite is set to revolutionize Earth observation with a uniquely crafted radar antenna. Unlike ...

Latin America and Oceania emerge as the most exposed regions, with many nations lacking detection and containment capacity, ...

The Journal Sentinel profiles people across Wisconsin connected by a desire to heal the earth, following their religious ...