Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

These findings, the 10 New Insights in Climate Change, are released annually by scientists at Future Earth, The Earth League, and the World Climate Research Programme. The group aims to provide ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

A directory and analysis of the open source ecosystem in the areas of climate change, sustainable energy, biodiversity and natural resources. https://docs.getgrist ...

Space biology efforts at NASA use the unique environment of space to conduct experiments impossible to do on Earth. Such research not only supports the health and welfare of astronauts, but results in ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today, often causing scant damage but ...

Distrust in science and facts has always been around. Whether it was the debate about evolution or the age of the Earth, when science and belief are in conflict, people tend to lean into discrediting ...

Water, carbon, nitrogen, luck—there are a handful of factors that appear necessary for living things, and which guide the search for life beyond Earth, a field of science called astrobiology.