James Romm’s book is an intellectual thriller, showing how the ancient Greek thinker came to write “The Republic,” his masterpiece of political theory.

The Earth as we know it today is the result of billions of years of geological activity, where continents have shifted, collided, and broken apart over time. But what did Earth look like in its early ...

President Donald Trump has taken a “scorched earth” approach to climate policy by going far beyond his first-term actions, a former diplomat said Tuesday during the POLITICO Energy Summit.

The thinker behind the “Republic” and other works of philosophy also played political adviser to a series of rulers in Sicily.

Plato: The man behind the Socratic Dialogues and other legends He was born in 427 BC. According to Olympiodorus, Plato was of noble origin. His father was Ariston, the son of Aristocles, through whom ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

On 11 June, engineers at OHB's facilities in Germany joined together the two main parts of ESA's Plato mission.

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

So far, Lauretta’s team has found only one viable follow-on target for OSIRIS-REx: the near-Earth asteroid Apophis, which will make a close approach to Earth in April 2029.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially considered a potential threat to Earth, is now more likely to hit the moon in 2032. The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar ...