The Planetary Health Check is a key monitor of earth's vital signs—and will guide action for a more sustainable world.

According to the 2024 Living Planet Report released today by World Wildlife Fund (WWF), where I serve as chief scientist, ...

Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr presents a fresh perspective on our planet's history and its relationship with life.

Years ago, astronomy professors started noticing something that troubled them: Many of their students didn't understand ...

A new “health check” for our planet sounds an alarm bell on rising ocean acidification, which is driven by carbon dioxide ...

The planet is "moving rapidly towards the red high-risk zone, where risks of permanently damaging life support on Earth ...

Based on what we know of stellar evolution, Earth will become inhospitable before we have to worry about the Sun exploding. "Planet Earth will only be habitable for around another billion years ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket snapped a pretty special in-space selfie on Monday (Oct. 7). The shot, captured during the launch of ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a ...

The exoplanet was discovered while searching for a hypothesized earth-like planet believed to be three times larger than ...

NASA has released the clearest images ever compiled of Earth’s magnetosphere radiation belt. But the spacecraft that ...

Yale’s Sunil Amrith explains why historical abuses of the planet for profit are also linked to human injustice — and why he ...