More than 40,000 people are expected to attend the global climate change summit as questions swirl about the United States' ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Orbital explores the raw reality of life in space, devoid of fantasy.

Three of the five groups (Hadley, Berkeley and Copernicus/ECMWF) are very likely to show annual temperatures exceeding 1.5C above pre-industrial levels (defined here as the 1850-1900 period), while ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

At the Year in Infrastructure (YII) event hosted by Bentley Systems in Vancouver, global industry leaders gathered to showcase excellence in infrastructure delivery and exchange visionary ideas for ...

The study shows that coral reefs have the potential to adapt and survive in changing climates if carbon emissions are reduced ...

Blind spiders and whip scorpions, the future of climate change, photosynthesis in the dark – here's what the deepest places ...

The world's first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space on Tuesday, in an early test of ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the future might look like.