From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Lincoln's S. Kathleen Lyons is providing a new framework—Earth system engineering—for examining how organisms, including humans, have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a global scale across hundreds ...

It is essential that we fund the basics that make science work, like field labs, calibration, and long-term monitoring.

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists revealed this week that Mars’ innermost core appears to be a solid hunk of metal just like Earth’s. The Chinese-led research team based their findings on seismic ...

EXCLUSIVE: In the documentary Earth to Michael, making its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend, a cute little boy wearing an Endeavour Space Shuttle sweatshirt is interviewed by ...

The film opens with the last, ragged breaths of a male rhino named Sudan. In 2018, the animal was euthanized at the age of 45 due to poor health, leaving the now 36-year-old female Najin and her ...

Companies have made impressive progress in measuring Earth’s environmental changes from space. GHGSat, an emissions-monitoring company in Montreal, Canada, tracks methane leaks from landfill sites and ...

Stillwater filmmaker explores his childhood adoration for the 1970s “Space: 1999” TV show and all manner of related topics — ...

The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...