Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Human ...

Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

Climate change could threaten the future use of satellites and significantly reduce the number of spacecraft that can safety orbit Earth, according to new research. Climate change could continue ...

A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...

From satellite-powered connectivity to climate monitoring and disaster management, space technology is helping solve ...

We found if the Earth warms by more than 3°C by the end of the century, the estimated harm to the global economy jumped from ...

"The end result will be a model of all life on Earth that has the ecological and environmental elements necessary to answer ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...