Elana Glowatz

The scientists called on humans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution, limit population growth, switch to renewable energy and protect nature before the planet becomes uninhabitable.

Climate change is affecting bird behavior, which could be both a negative and a positive thing.

Alligator snapping turtles are a threatened species, but scientists found the first wild one in decades … before they lost it again.

Coral reefs are important marine ecosystems, and climate change is threatening them.

There are billions of galaxies out there in the universe, but there is only one Milky Way.

Extraterrestrial life may not be able to survive the harsh conditions of the Mars surface, but it’s possible they could live underground for millions of years and are waiting to be found.

European people’s DNA is the result of lots of sex between Stone Age hunter-gatherers and Asian migrant farmers.

Scientists thought this star died in the 1950s but it came back to life and exploded in another supernova, shocking researchers.

A planetary scientist has come up with a new model for how gas giant planets form, and it could give us insight into the rest of our solar system and universe.

An ancient Roman man commissioned a sundial to celebrate winning an election, and archaeologists just dug it up at an old theater.

Scientists have discovered the remains of animals from 145 million years ago that are some of the earliest human ancestors, and they look like they would eat your garbage.

Astronomers took a super close photo of a dying red giant star that tells them what our sun will look like when it’s elderly.

People with poor social skills have worse physical and mental health because the stress of loneliness takes a toll on them.

An enormous crab with pincers strong enough to crack open coconuts also brutally kills and eats large birds, it turns out.

One of the critically endangered vaquita porpoises died as conservationists were capturing it in an attempt to save the species from extinction.

The first photos of the sun were taken in the first half of the 19th century and they paved the way for many important solar observations in the future.

The first human settlers in North and South America may have floated there along the coasts rather than walking across a land bridge.

Scientists are using a metal in the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs to destroy cancer cells and treat the disease.

People are eyeing a volcano in Spain’s Canary Islands after a series of earthquakes there, hoping Mount Teide doesn’t erupt.

A huge writhing mass of jellyfish-like marine animals washed up on a beach and scared locals.

Couples are most likely to divorce when there is a disparity in how much tension couples feel in their marriage.

The devastating asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs during a mass extinction event would have released enough gas into the atmosphere to seriously cool off Earth.

Astronomers analyzing exoplanets say these alien worlds may not be what they appear, so finding alien life on one of them could be out of the question.

An enormous volcano in Iceland has been showing signs of activity, and some are saying it could erupt soon.

Historians thought women never visited the ancient copper mines once connected to King Solomon, but the bones of a pregnant woman at the Israeli site show otherwise.

Scientists have found a gas giant orbiting close to a tiny star, defying theories of planetary formation.

Black holes might be connected across the universe with wormholes running between them.

A vaccine for HIV might be on the horizon, after scientists found a way to get your body’s immune system to attack the virus’ protective shield.

The first photos ever taken in space are older than NASA itself.