A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took a step forward this week ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

New reports out of the NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggest that the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in Earth’s atmosphere haven’t been this high in millions of years.

An analysis led by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was ...

It found that AED has made droughts 40% more severe worldwide on average. During the last five years alone, land areas in drought expanded by 74% compared to 1981–2017.

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

Celestis, which recently conducted a mission from California, will send cremated remains or human DNA to outer space for ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

The remains of more than 160 deceased people reached orbit yesterday on a spacecraft that hitched a ride on a SpaceX rocket.

NASA’s GOLD mission has made a discovery that is changing how scientists understand Earth’s upper atmosphere. For the first time ever, GOLD has seen X-shaped patterns in the ionosphere—a ...

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...