ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Jonathan Watts relates the extraordinary life of scientist, engineer, Gaia theorist and spy, Englishman James Lovelock.

One of the most mind-blowing and controversial Earth science concepts has to be the Gaia hypothesis. The idea was first introduced in the 1970s by chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn ...

Proposed in the 1970s by chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis, the Gaia hypothesis suggests Earth operates as a self-regulating organism, maintaining conditions for life.

Lovelock warned Rothschild that fossil fuel combustion was leading to catastrophic pollution and that it would have to be replaced by nuclear power. Watts sums up the “client-provider and ...

and in doing so managed to bolster the theory that our galaxy had already formed a significant population of its stars before it collided with another small galaxy called the Gaia-Enceladus ...

Gaia mission data, which precisely pinpoints ... indicating the presence of more than one star. This led to the hypothesis that vampire stars might interact with two companion stars, not just ...