Having failed to act on climate change, the global powers are quietly preparing for an environmental “technofix” not to mitigate or adapt, but to re-engineer the planet itself — an approach that would ...

Cyanobacteria, as they still exist today, were the first organisms to carry out photosynthesis and release oxygen. Produced in primeval oceans about 2.5 billion years ago, this oxygen accumulated in ...

When we look up at the night sky and see a satellite glide past, we might not consider climate change or the ozone layer. Space may feel separate from the environmental systems that sustain life on ...

In the search for more, new and cleaner sources of energy, a largely untapped resource is emerging: natural hydrogen. Unlike hydrogen produced from industrial processes, natural hydrogen forms through ...

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar system.

A telescope in Chile has revealed in unprecedented detail the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our ...

The center of the Milky Way is an extreme place. In addition to housing our galaxy's supermassive black hole, it also contains a 700-light-year-wide region of dense gas called the Central Molecular ...