We may be the last generation not knowing if we are alone in the Universe. "The Little Book of Aliens" will help you understand this journey.

The author of best-seller The Fault In Our Stars uses humor, wisdom and a keen sense of connections to offer guidance — as he reviews how humans are reshaping Earth.

When it comes to facing global warming, dealing with climate change and making informed choices for our cherished "project of civilization," we've been asking the wrong question, says Adam Frank.

Thirty-four states will be home to 30 percent of the country.

There are good reasons to believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, but this is not one of them.

The Eye of the Sahara, also known as the Richat Structure, is a geological formation located in the Sahara Desert near Ouadane, Mauritania. This unique and distinctive feature is a massive circular...

If you don't know why Earth has a solstice — or seasons, for that matter — you are in good company, says astrophysicist Adam Frank. But he's going to clear it up for you.

If you want to understand the search for alien life, there are a lot of topics and themes you need to know. One book will gather them all.

Some of the five mass extinctions Earth experienced in the past were driven by climate changes. Future Earth will be just fine. It's us humans we need to worry about, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

When it comes to facing global warming, dealing with climate change and making informed choices for our cherished "project of civilization," we've been asking the wrong question, says Adam Frank.

We’ve just learned that the whole universe is humming around us. Now what?

History shows us clearly that the ability to organize human culture through these virtues is no small thing — it has always been hard won. But we can feel grace to know it at all, says Adam Frank.

Science and the sacred both allow us to retain our sense of wonder, even as disaster seems to swirl around us.

Do cities destroy nature or are they part of nature? Astrophysicist Adam Frank looks at a new book attempting to answer that question — which he says could be a key to our collective future.

Reductionism offers a narrow view of the Universe that fails to explain reality.

A "wildly theoretical" paper explains how carbon nanofibers could be the key to asteroid cities.

Philosopher Henri Bergson didn't challenge Einstein's theory but, instead, a philosophy that grew up around it; Bergson's separation of science and metaphysics is worth considering, says Adam Frank.

There are good reasons to believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, but this is not one of them.

What we see in Behind the Curve is how the internet allowed groups of individuals prone to the very “outsider” idea of a flat Earth to find each other.

The universe gets to run the "life" experiment many times, which means the burden falls on the hyper-pessimists to show why Earth is unique, says Adam Frank, who just published a paper on the topic.

Humans changed Earth's climate by mistake, says astrophysicist Adam Frank. But not doing everything we can now that we know it's happening — that would be our fault and our failure. COMMENTARY.

You may have noticed that some time ago I posted about  a paper by Jamie Farnes published in Astronomy & Astrophysics but available on the arXiv here which entails a suggestion that material wi…

Throughout all our turmoil, science has not wavered. Instead, it shows us the greatness possible when we work together.

The Climate Science Special Report, released by the White House last week, is a valuable read — it's a primer on how science works when it overlaps with the need to make informed bets on our future.

The Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal is a research center dedicated to assessing the social, legal, ethical, and political implications of carbon removal technologies and practices.

Some of the five mass extinctions Earth experienced in the past were driven by climate changes. Future Earth will be just fine. It's us humans we need to worry about, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

History shows us clearly that the ability to organize human culture through these virtues is no small thing — it has always been hard won. But we can feel grace to know it at all, says Adam Frank.

Climate change will mean one emergency after another, year after year, as heat waves, floods, fire and storms blow cascades of failures through our systems.

Adam Frank reflects on the pope's statement through a talk with Jesuit priest and astronomer George Coyne, who he says may represent the beginnings of a true dialogue between science and religion.