Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are ...

One billion years into the future, you might imagine a world full of artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, and space ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Scientists are sharpening their forecasts for how long Earth can remain a comfortable home for complex organisms, and the ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

WASHINGTON (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 - showing it is ...

The rocky planet, roughly twice Earth's size, has offered astronomers a glimpse of one of Earth’s possible futures — if it doesn’t get engulfed by our expanding sun. When you purchase through links on ...

WASHINGTON — Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For the first time in history, world ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

In a recent Hot Take segment, the China Global Television Network recently released an interesting video detailing China's future plans for space. Titled "Earth 2.0? China's plan to find new Earth," ...