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Columbia Sustainability Management students and Sustainability Science faculty turned cutting-edge research on microplastics ...

Meteor impacts may have helped spark life on Earth, creating hot, chemical-rich environments where the first living cells ...

A fast-moving 2026 FF6 will pass close to Earth, but if it poses no danger, why are scientists still tracking it so closely?

A fast-moving asteroid, 2026 FR2, will pass Earth at a “close” distance, but if it poses no danger, why are scientists still ...

Mike Hankey, a researcher who manages fireball reporting tools for the AMS, analyzed data stretching back to 2011. He shared his findings in a recent AMS report, noting this meteorite season is ...

The latest evidence suggests that God most likely exists, argues a big recent book by Michel-Yves Bolloré, a computer ...

A major defense against everything space throws at us, Earth’s magnetic field may even protect the moon from damaging ...

The 2026 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows has been selected. The 32 fellows are recent PhDs who’ve been nominated as some of ...

Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, ...

This science-fiction adventure is a lot funnier than you might think. “Project Hail Mary,” the weekend box office smash that ...