Researchers at MIT, NASA and elsewhere have detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light-years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent star. The scientists infer ...

Astronomers have found over 5,000 exoplanets, and now scientists think these distant worlds could unlock one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter. A new study suggests that Jupiter-like ...

The far north is both a massive carbon sink and a potent environmental time bomb. The region stores a huge amount of CO 2 in boreal forests and underlying soils. Organic peat soil, for instance, ...

Everyone assumes more trees means a cooler planet. Plant enough of them and the temperature comes down. The Sahara might prove that assumption wrong in the most inconvenient way possible. Because sand ...