NASA’s effort to save the Swift space telescope from an uncontrolled reentry has crossed a critical threshold: ground teams ...

Stretching from the Atlantic coast of Senegal to the shores of Djibouti on the Red Sea, Africa is undertaking one of the most ...

Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks are enormous.

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

A proposed technique to counter global warming by spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles would cause commercial ...

Ammonia rarely makes headlines, but much of modern life depends on it. The compound of nitrogen and hydrogen is the key ingredient in the fertilizers that help feed roughly half of the world's ...

The Swift Boost Mission will use a robotic servicing craft to grab and raise into a higher orbit the Swift Observatory before it falls into the Earth’s atmosphere ...

AltCarbon has scaled its enhanced rock weathering experiment from a 300-acre pilot to 60,000 acres and over 35,000 farmers ...

Research by atmospheric scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and colleagues pinpointed an ...

NOAA and its research partners are forecasting a moderate harmful algal bloom (HAB) in western Lake Erie this summer. The annual forecast, released June 25, projects the bloom could range from 3 to 4.

In the first part of this series, she weighs up the idea that the Earth could really be flat… In 1838, Samuel Rowbotham, an ...

NASA’s Artemis III mission, now targeting a late 2027 launch, will test critical equipment and interfaces in Earth orbit with a newly announced crew from NASA and ESA, amid delays, safety-driven ...