Between a third and half of all soil carbon on Earth is stored in peatlands, says Tom and Marie Patton Distinguished Professor Joel Kostka. These wetlands—formed from layers and layers of decaying ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

A massive asteroid, 2025 FA22, will safely pass Earth on September 18, 2025, at a distance of 4.6 million miles. Initially ...

Whether the father of evolution overcame his fear is a mystery, but if he felt that way about the eyeball, his first sight of Trypanohyncha Ocellus, the “ Alien: Earth ” creature known as the eye ...

New observations reveal that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is much smaller and spinning much faster than originally thought.

Alien: Earth 's latest chapter, titled 'Emergence', is largely a set-up entry ahead of next week's likely explosive season 1 ...

Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are known to raise temperatures in Earth's atmosphere. But slow feedback processes, ...

Alien: Earth sets its scenes in a couple key locations of Thailand in the year 2120, by which point the planet has been ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds.

But Tristan has not always been able to depend on its lobster bounty. Decades ago, heavy fishing caused a significant ...