A rock star's conservation gamble outlasted him by decades—and now faces its first real test under new owners.

Mars has about 97% as much surface area as Earth’s dry land, a geometrical coincidence created by the oceans covering most of ...

A Florida rancher protected his hard-won land from development by locking it into conservation, proving that ownership and ...

When a nauseated composer stumbled into a Scottish sea cave, he heard something no one had quite captured in music before—and ...

A self-sacrificing mammal becomes bait in an unconventional war against an invasive predator that has conquered the Florida ...

By refusing to look away, a space telescope discovered that planets are commonplace, not rare exceptions to the cosmic rule.

The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...

In 2009 a drill crew in northeast Iceland went looking for very hot water and hit something that was still moving. They were working at Krafla, a volcanic caldera about ten kilometres wide in one of ...

An Artemis II astronaut photographed the cratered Moon and crescent Earth from Orion in April 2026. Credit: NASA. The image is illustrative and is not one of the microbial-survival maps from the study ...

Sperm whales come up from the deep wearing evidence. Rings of pale scar tissue across the head and flanks, some as wide as a coaster, pressed there by something with suckers and no interest in being ...

There is a quiet assumption most of us carry about intelligence: that planning for a future that hasn’t arrived yet is a primate thing, maybe even a human thing. We save for retirement, pack an ...

A hurricane gives you warning. A cold front gives you warning. What NASA described for the middle of the next decade gives you almost none of that, and that absence of warning is the detail that ...