Since Earth has survived for over 4.5 billion years, why should we consider any need to protect Earth now—assuming we can? She has survived cosmic forces, meteor impacts, volcanic eruptions, ice ages, ...

Planet Earth and the life it contains wouldn't exist if it weren't for the sun. But the sun also poses a serious threat to life, by constantly spewing harmful radiation into the solar system. Exactly ...

Mars Sample Return campaign makes use of an armada of hardware to collect Martian soil, rock, and atmospheric specimens for return to Earth. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Now underway is a ...

World Pangolin Day 2026 highlights why pangolins matter to ecosystems and how illegal trade and hunting are pushing them toward extinction.

In the clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, scientists wear suits and masks while working on the Mars 2020 rover to avoid contamination. Credit: NASA/JPL ...

For millennia humans have been inspired by the stars but this may soon be a thing of the past due to a significant increase in the numbers of satellites, potentially limiting our view of the night sky ...