As global temperatures continue to rise and the effects of climate change become more evident, many wonder if there's a backup plan for humanity. Could we eventually leave Earth and find a new home on ...

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos wants to move industry off Earth to save the planet. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, wants to move ...

How much land, water, and other resources does our lifestyle require? And how can we adapt this lifestyle to stay within the limits of what the Earth can give? A new article tackles these questions.

With basic science and imagination, we can hypothesize what life might develop on other planets James Trefil and Michael Summers You are in a long, dark tunnel walled with solid ice. The only light ...

NASA scientists have discovered an electric field encompassing Earth’s atmosphere that is as “fundamental” as gravity — and could even give clues about possible life on other planets. A team of NASA ...

On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) returned its first images, penetrating the wall of time to show us the universe a few hundred million years after its formation. In a marvelous ...

An Oct. 11 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of Earth and another, larger planet beside it. "This is K2-18b, a potentially habitable planet covered with oceans and about 2.6 ...

We often wonder whether there are aliens on other planets but what if we ourselves are aliens on the planet we call home? Panspermia, the “controversial” theory that life “began elsewhere in space” ...

What do the clouds on Jupiter, dust storms on Mars and rainstorms on Titan all have in common? They look like they belong on Earth. As we venture through the universe, scientists are finding uncanny - ...

This chart shows the footprints of six environmental indicators and the shares of each global expenditure decile in the total footprints. Bar and doughnut pie chart refer to the per capita footprints ...