A new study reveals that humans were extensively using fire to modify landscapes as far back as 50,000 years ago. That’s at ...

Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

The first wave of Starlink satellites are reaching the end of their five-year lifespans and burning up in droves.

Now, Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley has hinted that the upcoming TV spin-off could wind up confirming things either way ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Human perceptions hold the key to the future of solar geoengineering and other approaches to cool our warming planet.

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to ...

Most estimates place Earth’s human population at around 8.2 billion, but Josias Láng-Ritter—a postdoctoral researcher at ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that precious metals like gold are leaking from Earth’s core into the mantle, ultimately ...

A ChatGPT-powered spacecraft might not be such an improbable concept after all, but there's still work to be done.

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...