Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across the seafloor. The nodules are rich in metals which are key ingredients for ...

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope ...

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by ...

There will be a large planetary alignment on Aug. 10, 2025, featuring Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn, ...

Loneliness has become a global health crisis, linked to depression, dementia, and early death. With over a billion people ...

Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood. A 2023 study in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone found that 88% to 92% of ...

We need the two superpowers to get serious about devising a regulatory and technological framework that keeps A.I. under ...

For most of my life, I’ve been interested in matters of scale — the extremes, from the unknowable vastness of our universe to ...

Remote sensing technologies have revolutionized our understanding of terrestrial planets, moons, and other small bodies. With the resurgence of ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of great apes in Africa ...