Phosphorus, the vastly underappreciated 15 th element on the periodic table, is essential to all life as we know it ... never found as a free element on Earth, but instead is always bound up ...

The brainchild of renowned astronomer Carl Sagan, the Golden Records contain sounds and images intended to provide a broad glimpse of life and culture on Earth. Images include DNA, human anatomy ...

En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on ...

A space physics expert has sounded the alarm over the dangers of space junk orbiting Earth at speeds of 18,000mph, warning that it could pose a serious threat to life on our planet. Dr Ian ...

While life on Earth has weathered multiple magnetic reversals over more than 100 million years, “we’ve never experienced a reversal when modern technology was present,” Brown said.

Scientists have discovered a new way oxygen can form in carbon-dioxide-rich atmospheres of worlds beyond our own —- challenging assumptions about how we should search for life on other planets ...

And that magnetic collapse might have actually helped spark an explosion of life on Earth. A reduction in Earth’s magnetic strength during a period that spanned at least 591 million and 565 ...

The discovery kick-started a quest within chemistry and biology to devise experiments that could help answer one of the biggest scientific questions facing humanity: How did life on Earth begin?

Human composting is emerging as an end-of-life alternative that is friendlier to the climate and the Earth — it is far less carbon-intensive than cremation and doesn’t use chemicals involved ...

Fake news is a huge problem online, and misleading images spread like wildfire on social media. WhatsApp, with its massive global reach, is often a hotbed for this kind of misinformation.