Earth & Space

Professors speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science warned against the effects that climate change could have on the world's food supplies.

NASA scientist working with the Kepler telescope have looked at two years of data and concluded that there is some 50 billion plants in the Milky Way galaxy.

Researchers in Alaska believe that unlocking the secrets of hibernation could be the key for humans to travel through deep space.

Researchers who spent time plotting the orbits of 40,000 M-Type Red Dwarf stars for the next billion years have discovered that there is an infinitely small chance that one of eighteen specific stars they tracked could one day pass dangerously close to Earth.

Three Coronal Mass Ejections that were spawned by the recent X-Class solar flare are expected to impact Earth between February 16th-18th, which should provide some people with a heck of a light show.

NASA and other scientists believe that they have found a new planet on the edge of the solar system, inside the Oort asteroid cloud.

The Sun has generated the first X-Class solar flare of Solar Cycle 24. While this will be an opportunity to test the radiation resistance of our satellites, for us on Earth it simply means that we could be treated to a showing of Northern Lights.

While humanity may strive to explore deep space, concerns about solar radiation may make it impossible for humans to explore beyond Mars.

Bill O'Reilly takes on all those pinheads who think that gravity is enuf. But in a fantasy smackdown with Richard Feynman, who fares better? Videos after the jump.

If Jupiter were the moon's distance from Earth, a changed night sky would be the least of our problems.