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On New Year’s Day, Michael Nicolls, vice president of Starlink engineering at SpaceX, announced that the company will lower ...

Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in surprising and fascinating ways.

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Research evaluates the likelihood of debris from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS reaching Earth, analyzing gas, dust and larger ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

The West Virginia University Board of Governors has put its support behind the creation of a for-profit limited liability company with a goal of bringing WVU-developed rare earth element technologies ...