So are there any stars that pose a threat to us? To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must look at a supernova's destructive capabilities.

When humans pump groundwater, it has a substantial impact on the tilt of Earth’s rotation. Additionally, a study documents just how much of an influence groundwater pumping has on climate change.

Pangaea is Earth's most recent supercontinent ... telling us that there was plentiful life on land," Murphy told Live Science. Climate models confirm that the continental interior of Pangaea ...

A slim science fiction novel that looks at our ... “Compact yet beautifully expansive, Orbital invites us to observe the Earth’s splendour, whilst reflecting on the individual and collective ...

The Middle East and North Africa, which already include some of the hottest and driest spots on Earth, are undergoing accelerated climate change and will reach warming thresholds two to three ...

Nov. 15, 2024 — Rainforest protection is not only good for biodiversity and the climate -- it also noticeably improves the health of humans who live in the corresponding regions. Researchers ...

Nov. 18, 2024 — Southeast Asia's tropical forests are renowned for their biodiversity, but at the same time face significant threats from the expansion of oil palm plantations. With global ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ...

This paradigm shift, catalyzed by the NSIL’s LVM3-launch vehicle Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model and now the launch of innovative Earth Observation Satellites (EOS) by IN-SPACe ...

Suddenly the geologically brief moment of human dominance on Earth is over ... This story is part of Popular Science’s Ask Us Anything series, where we answer your most outlandish, mind-burning ...

Jeanne DuPrau’s “Project F,” Patricia Forde’s “The Girl Who Fell to Earth” and Donna Barba Higuera’s “Alebrijes” answer the question, Could this be the beginning of the end?

In what could be a major advance in understanding the genetic causes underlying human infertility, scientists led by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick have identified a gene ...