The 2025 Melbourne Cup has been won by Half Yours for jockey Jamie Melham and trainers Tony and Calvin McEvoy.

To many humans, soil is just the dirt under our feet. But new research shows that for more than half of all species on Earth, soil is crucial habitat—and an imperiled one at that. “I think soil’s ...

He’s usually the one doing the naming, having identified 65 previously unknown species. Now Alessandro Catenazzi has been named himself as the Half-Earth Chair. The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation ...

Half-Earth is the notion that for humans to survive, we must retain earth’s waning biodiversity by reserving half the planet for nature, stabilizing large swaths of ocean, prairie, rainforest and ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft launched in the 1970s is expected to make its return to Earth sometime this weekend. The unmanned robotic spacecraft, Kosmos 482, originally set out to land on the scorching ...

Astronomy fanatics may be in for a treat this Saturday as an estimated 200-foot asteroid is expected to "zip" past Earth in about half the distance from the surface of the planet to the moon, ...

IMAGE: Field image of the achondrite meteorite GRA 06129, found in blue ice of the Graves Nunatak region of the Antarctica during the ANSMET 2006/2007 field-season. GRA 06129 and its pair,… Click here ...

Asteroids of this size only approach the planet about once per decade, according to NASA Asteroid Watch An asteroid the size of a skyscraper is about to make a close pass to Earth. The 2023 DZ2 ...

Part I. The problem. 1. The world ends, twice ; 2. Humanity needs a biosphere ; 3. How much biodiversity survives today? ; 4. An elegy for the rhinos ; 5. Apocalypses now ; 6. Are we as gods? ; 7. Why ...

A bright new solar system comet could put on a show in the October night sky as it zooms past Earth. Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) was discovered on Sept. 10 by Ukrainian amateur astronomer Vladimir Bezugly.

[The astrophysicist Shep] Doeleman said a black hole formed from folding the Earth in half could power Manhattan for a year. —The Harvard Gazette, May 13, 2022. Yes, there are trade-offs. We ...

The beloved cozy site Cozy Earth is holding a sale with up to 75% off its bestsellers. Stock up on your favorite last-chance options from crewnecks to joggers and more everyday staple styles during ...