The idea of terraforming Mars—essentially reshaping the planet to support Earth life—has captured imaginations for decades.

New study gives conservationists a simpler, general approach for predicting an ecosystem’s tipping point and what comes next ...

Ancient herbivore ecosystems survived two major global reorganizations but face unprecedented modern extinction threats.

A group of Kennesaw State University architecture students is gaining international attention for its nature-focused designs ...

China is going full Jules Verne as it prepares to go where no drill has gone before. As part of its Deep Ocean Drilling ...

Discover the jaw-dropping historical icon that is the underground wonderland of Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.

A recent studypublished in Nature Geoscienceexplores the future of Earth’s atmosphere, revealing that a dramatic decline in ...

The search for life on other worlds needs a way to sift through the chemistry of their atmospheres. If another species ...

"Earth’s modern atmosphere is highly oxygenated and is a remotely detectable signal of its surface biosphere," those ... like planets beyond our Solar System (for example, habitable planets ...

This includes: climate change, change in biosphere integrity (this is driven ... and introduction of novel entities into the earth system, i.e., the myriad of human generated chemicals, like ...

We know this because our solar system sits inside a massive ... It is titled "Earth's atmosphere protects the biosphere from nearby supernovae." The lead author is Theodoros Christoudias from ...