The global change program Future Earth is an international alliance of organizations and agencies that was launched by the UN in June 2012. The Future Earth 2025 Vision identified eight global ...

Over the past week we've witnessed the many political discussions that go with the territory of a COP—or, more verbosely, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on ...

The planet should not have survived the star's red giant phase—which sees a star balloon to more than 100 times its original ...

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 ...

About 1800 light years away, a planet the size of Neptune is orbiting perilously close to its baleful, bloated red star — and it could be carrying some clues about Earth’s eventual fate. The planet — ...

From ecosystem change and soil quality to hydrology and natural hazards, Earth studies have never been so important. But in a crowded field of concerns, how can researchers prioritize the most ...

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 ...

A reader (and astronomy expert) gets to grips with this one, pointing out that Earth’s future fate is still uncertain – and ...

From the gradual heating of our Sun to the slow death of the cosmos, the future of Earth and the Universe is a story of breathtaking transformations, cosmic collisions, and inevitable endings. Here is ...

At the ripe age of five, it is clear that the United States Space Force, while dominated by old thinking, still doesn’t know what it wants to be when it grows up, and is split among multiple different ...