The passing of comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas is close enough to Earth, an estimated 44 million miles away, to see with the naked ...
Typically, as the days get colder and shorter during autumn, leaves are exposed to less sunlight. This slows down the ...
Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...
Resaerchers have found that the vast majority of meteorites pummelling the Earth's atmosphere come from only three different ...
WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) – The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned-out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store for Earth billions of years from now ...
With song, dance and swirls of colour in stark contrast to the seriousness of the official talks a few kilometres away, the ...
Plants, trees, and soil absorbed almost no net CO2 last year. If this continues, we're in bigger trouble than we thought.
Islands cover just 5.3% of the world’s land area, but contribute disproportionately to global biodiversity, according to ...
If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way.
According to the study, published in Nature on Oct. 16, islands throughout the world are home to nearly 1/3 of the world’s ...
Ecofeminism rejects the idea of human dominance over nature. The inaugural show at the Brick, an independent art space ...
A study in Nature reveals that islands, covering just 5.3% of the planet's land, harbor 21% of the world's plant biodiversity ...