All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the ...

We're likely less than two weeks from a former Soviet Union spacecraft re-entering Earth's atmosphere, but there's a problem: ...

Space junk crashing back back to Earth could be a growing problem for aircraft, researchers warned in a recent study. The study's authors said that the probability of space debris hitting an ...

While America grapples with actual Earth problems — like democracy hanging by a thread, economic inequality soaring, and our literal planet burning — Gayle King wants to know why we’re not ...

Welp. Shaquille O'Neal -- retired NBA superstar and star of the 1996 movie Kazaam-- believes the Earth is flat, and you know what? I'm not interested in trying to convince him otherwise.

The peril lies in the possibility that society may romanticize escape over repair, losing sight of the problems that threaten our only home. While SpaceX’s rockets reach for the stars ...

A first-of its-kind space weather "tabletop" exercise has revealed major weaknesses in America's preparedness for severe ...

Earth Day LVI comes this week as the planet’s people meter points at 8.2 billion. The planet held about 3.7 billion humans on Earth Day I in 1970. Those gathered this trip around the sun to make ...

Mother Earth News has been here since the 1970s, addressing what’s wrong with our modern world and helping you find more ...

At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This constellation of machinery is the technological backbone of modern life ...