It's even considered closer to space than to any Earth land mass. The Kármán line, known as the boundary of space, is 62 miles above Earth. Astronauts aboard the ISS in equatorial low-Earth ...

A 2023 satellite image captured a pair of peculiar phenomena painting parallel swirls in the sea and sky around Norway's Bear ...

77.6% of Earth's land has become drier in the last three decades ... agricultural collapse and spurring growing mass migrations. Areas particularly hard hit include almost all of Europe, the ...

More than three-quarters of land on Earth became permanently drier in the ... the world’s seventh-largest country More than 40% of global land mass (40.6%), excluding Antarctica, is now ...

And many experts argue that the Anthropocene age, the current period of human activity altering Earth, is causing a sixth. Paleontologists track mass extinctions by studying rock samples from ...

Life on the newest island on Earth is thriving ... becoming the world's youngest land mass. The South Pacific archipelago's 177th island is basically made up of minuscule pieces of volcanic ...

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis ... Fifty percent of the planet’s land mass has been transformed for human use [3]. More atmospheric nitrogen is now fixed by humans than ...

For more than 60 million years they were Earth's dominant land vertebrates ... Now we are creating a new mass extinction, wiping out countless species. Will life be as resilient this time?