Discover how the African continent may eventually split along the East African Rift, transforming landscapes and possibly ...

What happens at the end of our world? Scientists have found an Earth-like planet orbiting a star 4,000 light years away from the solar system that may reveal our planet’s ultimate fate. The rocky ...

From ancient greenhouse worlds to ice ages, Earth's past offers vital clues to its future. Explore the 40th anniversary ...

NASA Artemis missions are working toward a near future where humans are an interplanetary species—lunar bases are planned by 2030 and a round trip to Mars in 2039. These planet-hopping people will ...

Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are so many different factors to consider, and we only have the technological ...

Earth’s distant future has always been framed as a slow fade billions of years from now, but a new generation of models is painting a sharper and more unsettling picture. Instead of a gentle decline, ...

The future of the planet may not be the most comfortable of subjects to think about — from the threat of climate change to worry about world wars — but for astronomers, it's something to consider when ...