On a local level, heavy metal and chemical pollution from unmaintained factories and infrastructure will exert pressures on ...

In a discovery that may further our understanding of the early evolution of life on Earth, a research team, including ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first emerged.

In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our skies until Nov. 25 before returning to the solar system. Some past mini ...

The Burning Earth, by Sunil Amrith ... who translated the story “From the Wilderness” in this week’s issue. The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far Our editors and critics review notable ...

In a sci-fi story, this spot ... galaxies more distant from our own than any known before. That’s another kind. McDowell brought the subject almost back to Earth. On our planet, he said, Point ...

A modest French sci-fi fable whose messages about letting go aren’t half as moving as the images surrounding them.

In this configuration, an Earth-based observer has a relativistically distorted perception of the time of the matter at the beginning and end of the jet: Its front begins to appear younger than it ...

I saw a story in Popular Mechanics, of all places ... So, 15,000 years before the date which marks the start of our calendar, a truly ancient man and woman had a baby that died probably before he ...

As for other spots to make the global list, Trunk Bay in the Virgin Islands took the top spot, followed by Cala Mariolu in ...