For decades, global efforts to combat climate change and protect biodiversity have relied on a high-tech promise: that ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary ...

An analysis from 50 scientists found that ocean temperatures hit a new record high last year, an alarming sign for global ...

Challenger Deep is the deepest part of all the oceans on Earth. Animals that live there have to deal with the most hostile ...

Space-based solar power advances with microwave and laser transmission, orbital assembly, and cost reductions, aiming for ...

For all our technological progress, humanity remains confined to a single planet. But that may not always be the case. Over ...

Astronomers have just confirmed for the first time the existence of a "rogue planet"—a world drifting in space without being ...

The Saturn-sized celestial object is one of the clearest examples yet of a planet drifting through space without a host star.

The high mountains of central Chile look solid and eternal, but their ice is in trouble. For fifteen years, the country has ...

Abstract: This paper presents Prithvi-EO-2.0, a new geospatial foundation model that offers significant improvements over its predecessor, Prithvi-EO-1.0. Trained on 4.2 million global time series ...

Earth-like atmospheres require precise balances of nitrogen, oxygen, and CO₂, supported by long-term geological and biological processes. Most M-dwarf planets face atmospheric loss due to intense ...