Inspiring words indeed from the Attorney General to all state lawyers. Wonderful to hear that conditions and accommodation ...

Earth Commission Report1 provides major new insights into the potential for the transgression of Earth-system boundaries ...

Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...

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Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising temperatures are once again causing the world’s oceans to turn green.

Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

Astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study an asteroid that has a small chance of ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Venus is often called Earth's "sister planet" because it is similar in size and composition. However, it is covered in volcanoes and lava flows, indicating ongoing volcanic activity. The Venusian ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...