The Planetary Health Check is a key monitor of earth's vital signs—and will guide action for a more sustainable world.

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

What will the next 50 years look like for Earth? Explore what current scientific research says about climate change, ...

A layer of rock just 520 million years old sat directly on top of ancient rock dating back 1.4 to 1.8 billion years.

In the 20th century, scientists began to suspect Earth was a lot older than we thought. It was our old friends/deadly foes, ...

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Earth's cosmic neighbourhood is more dynamic than imagined, hosting temporary 'mini-moons' captured by gravity and 'quasi-moons' in resonant orbits. These transient visitors, unlike our permanent Moon ...

Scientists using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered an exoplanet, which NASA defines as “any planet beyond our solar system.” What's False However, the “strange signals” ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

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