From high-speed battering rams to gravity tractors, the technology exists to protect the planet. The question is whether humanity will act in time—and in concert.

The trailblazing astronomer lends her name to the newest space telescope slated to deliver unprecedented insight into the universe

It’s the first definitive proof of the angrite parent body

The Soviet Union beat the United States to the punch by 20 years

Two-thousand-year-old grape seeds yield viticultural insight in the Chianti wine region

But a Frenchman beat him to the electric punch by a month

A new view of the prisoner’s dilemma

Kids who can hold it together until the final bell may be primed for more academic success in life

The 50-year mystery suggests humans may be more rational than we thought

A new map of global mycorrhizal fungi details the massive scope of the vital systems

And scientists are sounding the alarm

Pando’s voice comes from the wind

Two of these mysterious sharks were recorded by deep-sea submersibles

The two-toed sloth genome provides some definitive answers

Whale remains have accumulated in this Indian Ocean site for 5 million years

A conversation with Harvard philosopher Ian Marcus Corbin on material, biological, and spiritual belonging

A conversation with behavioral geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden about the heritability of vice

Is it absurd to think that science can inform our values?