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

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

She wrote the bestseller that made young people fall in love with science

An ancient makeup bottle turns up far from its Egyptian home

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

But there’s a lot we still don’t know about these intrusive thoughts of food

Our current achievement economy may deserve the blame

Pando’s voice comes from the wind

A new trick for Fido—finding spotted lanternfly eggs

The Indigenous people of Taiwan call it “the tree that hits the moon”

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

Nutritional stress depresses an already threatened population

It takes a large stomach and a slow metabolism

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

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

Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it