Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands of years—long enough for life’s building blocks to form. Scientists now think these environments may have been common on early Earth, making them aContinue Reading
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A view of NASA’s Orion spacecraft following its outbound correction burn, refining the spacecraft’s trajectory toward the Moon. Orion and the four crew members of the Artemis II mission will conduct a flyby around the far side of the Moon on Monday, April 6. NASA Mission control teams in Houston andContinue Reading
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.Continue Reading
Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins and investigative reporter Katie Surma as they discuss how the Shuar people in Ecuador are combining ancestral knowledge and modern science to protect their forest from a Canadian mining giant. By Katie Surma In the copper-rich mountains of southeastern Ecuador,Continue Reading
Peering out one of the four windows near the display console on the Orion spacecraft, the Earth is illuminated by the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. This image was taken by an Artemis II crew member on the fifth day ofContinue Reading
The courts will decide if the first “climate superfund” law in the nation survives, a likely years-long battle. Vermont towns, meanwhile, must figure out how to pay for infrastructure that extreme weather won’t destroy. By Dana Drugmand, Nathaniel Eisen RUTLAND, Vt.—Eighteen years after the first “climate tort” lawsuit was filed,Continue Reading
A hidden Roman sanctuary discovered beneath Frankfurt is offering rare clues about ancient rituals, including possible human sacrifice. With major funding secured, scientists are now racing to uncover how this mysterious, multi-god cult site operated., Read MoreContinue Reading
The Artemis II crew took this photo on day 4 of their journey to the Moon. In it, the Moon is oriented with the South Pole at the top and are beginning to see parts of the lunar far side. Orientale basin is on the right edge of the lunarContinue Reading
Microplastics scientists are finding the tiny particles everywhere, even in their own research laboratories. So how do they know if what they’re finding is in the sample or contamination from plastic fibers floating in the air?Continue Reading
NASA On April 4, 2026, NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft’s main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon. The Artemis II astronauts – Wiseman and fellow NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Victor Glover,Continue Reading
An Interior Department proposal would cancel BLM grazing leases for American Prairie’s buffalo in Montana, but it could affect tribal and private herds across the West. By Blaine Harden PHILLIPS COUNTY, Mont.—The American buffalo—those ornery, hairy prairie beasts that reign as the official mammal of the United States—have joined windContinue Reading