In this issue, we present a collection of articles that explore how the evolution of terrestrial plants and the Earth's surface have affected each other. Reports from the Kepler mission have ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

Scientists think they have the answer to a puzzle that baffled even Charles Darwin: How flowers evolved and spread to become the dominant plants on Earth. Flowering plants, or angiosperms ...

“Plants are the infrastructure of ecosystems,” she says, and they’re “interdependent with other organisms—and with one another—in ways we don’t completely understand.” Botanists ...