Jun 14, 2023 | News
For the first time, phosphorus — the rarest of six elements upon which life as we know it depends — has been found in a tiny ocean-bearing moon in our solar system.
Mar 26, 2023 | News
A Club of Rome study projects that on current trends the world population will reach 8.8 billion before the middle of the century, then decline rapidly. The peak could come earlier if governments take steps to raise average incomes and education levels.
Jan 1, 2023 | News
Geologists will choose a place they believe best illustrates when a new epoch – which they have dubbed the Anthropocene – was born and its predecessor, the Holocene, came to an end.
Dec 12, 2022 | News
The target is dominating at the biodiversity summit, but the problem of finding a balance between Indigenous peoples’ rights and conservation remains unresolved.
Sep 1, 2022 | News
Telescope uses infrared light to reveal blazing gas giant shrouded in dusty red clouds.
Mar 22, 2022 | News
Exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars, were once only theorized. And even then, astronomers thought only some stars had planets. Yet, on Monday, NASA announced that, to date, 5,000 exoplanets have been detected.