"Mars remains our horizon goal for human exploration because it is one of the only other places we know where life may have existed in the solar system. "What we learn about the Red Planet will ...

Experts told Newsweek about the difficulties of reaching Mars as the United States faces complex challenges in space policy.

Is this another ... Yet humans — the keystone species for fire on Earth — are merging the two arenas of earthly burning with a give and take that is reshaping the planet in what resembles ...

Over the past 5,000 years, money has profoundly altered humanity and our relationships with each other and with the rest of ...

The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

The Aquarian new moon on January 29 is an invitation to dip your toes into new experiences, especially when it comes to ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world.

On top of breakthroughs in animal language, the Earth Species Project expects improved interspecies understanding will foster greater appreciation for the planet in the face of climate change.

invisible to human eyes but easily observable with infrared telescopes. Find it in a planet’s biosignature, and you may well have found an extraterrestrial forest. But the vegetation on other ...

If we could turn back time to between 45,000 and 29,000 years ago, we would find that the planet was a vastly different ... This complex web of interactions, where humans and scavenger animals ...

It has its themes — among them, self-improvement, self-control and independence of thought — but more than any one idea, it ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.