Nature loss has far-reaching consequences. Damaged ecosystems exacerbate climate change, undermine food security and put people and communities at risk. We only have until the end of the decade to ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

Astronomers had detected just a hint, a glimmer of two molecules swirling in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b — molecules that on Earth are produced only by living things.

Six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea wasn’t nearly as picturesque as it is today. It was barely even a sea; tectonic activity had raised a mountain range in the Strait of Gibraltar ...

Yet, even though the object will fly past us at a safe 4.6 million kilometers, that is an unusually close distance for astronomers. Because the asteroid is big, travels fast and passes close to Earth, ...

But Earth is tracking towards somewhere between RCP 2.6 and 4.5, which would translate to about 2.7°C of warming by 2100. IPCC experts also developed five pathways of possible social, economic ...

Joe Skipper/Reuters By Kenneth Chang The latest flight of SpaceX’s Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, got all the way up to space, but not all the way back down to Earth.

Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath the East African Rift System.

Gold, hidden deep within the Earth’s core, is making its way to the surface of our planet, leaking through the mantle and into the crust, scientists have found. A new study out of Germany ...