In a year of grim climate and environment news, we’ve compiled several hopeful signs about our planet’s future.

In “Why Do We Exist?” Hakeem Oluseyi explores how life may emerge to move energy through matter—and why Earth is the perfect ...

An accounting of all the water that should have been and gone on Mars’s surface has come up with a discrepancy that shows just how little we understand the Red Planet’s hydrological history A billion ...

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"Please make Pluto a planet again. I really want it to be a planet again," Kayla begins, eliciting a response from the NASA ...

The scientific wonderers at What If evaluate the low-gravity mining and the pressurized habitats needed to turn a giant space rock into a new home.

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Astronomy. The original story “ Frozen ocean world found lurking between Mars and Jupiter ” is published in The Brighter Side of News. Like ...

The scars on Ceres should have softened by now. That was the long-running problem. If the dwarf planet’s crust held a great ...

After a 10-year-old wrote to NASA begging for Pluto to be re-instated as a planet, Administrator Jared Isaacman appears to be ...

NPR's Planet Money is publishing its first book! The team's newest project aims to help audiences navigate the economy and their lives. Is the economy confusing to you? Like, you struggle to find your ...