A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states ...

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An international research collaboration has harnessed supercomputing power to better understand how massive slabs of ancient ...

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On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of ...

Australian researchers have used cardboard, water and soil to create a strong construction material with low carbon emissions ...

Scientists warn Ethiopia’s soil is rapidly losing organic carbon, endangering harvests and releasing more CO₂ into the air.

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable ...

Chemical fossils from 635-million-year-old rocks suggest sponges were among Earth’s first animals, reshaping the story of early life.

Yale SOM’s Christopher Clayton is helping to pioneer the field of geoeconomics, which explains how countries wield economic ...