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

We can leverage the climate-control capabilities inside Biosphere 2 and an engineered irrigation system to create different ... This study provides one example of how we use LEO to better ...

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

Researchers look to extremes in the past to study how the system reacts to imbalances. They detail an overlooked mechanism for how the ocean can help stabilize massive releases of carbon into the ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

Research in Nature Communications suggests the contribution of ocean biology to climate regulation is more complex than ...

The Danish artists have pushed beyond the gallery and into the outside world, making works designed to serve communities — ...

A new archaeology is being developed based on evidence of human activity in the Earth’s sedimentary record, and ...

The icy moons of the Solar System, like Europa around Jupiter and Enceladus around Saturn, are the most likely candidates in ...

Since its foundation in 1954 under the auspices of UNESCO, the complex – one of the largest scientific facilities on earth ... system. Until recently, it was the only global overview of the planet’s ...