As the clock ticks toward the end times, it’s easy to lose faith in humanity’s ability to endure. But we can’t give up.

In an effort to speed up the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, some researchers are sending messages into the cosmos. We may not…

Between climate change and more, we could be sleepwalking into annihilation

New technologies like gene editing could vastly improve human life. They also just might end it.

Species are going extinct and the climate is warming rapidly — yet at least materially, humans are doing better than ever. Welcome to the…

Seventy-four years after World War II, we’re still living with the risk of nuclear holocaust — and it all began on a patch of desert

For too long, human beings have used technology to pillage the planet. With limits approaching, we must find a better way.

A six-mile-wide asteroid ended the dinosaurs, and the same could happen to us one day. But NASA is at work on ways to keep us safe.