The three spacecraft will be forecasting solar storms, mapping our solar neighborhood and observing the outer layer of ...

Biosphere 2 isn’t just the site of a famous human experiment. Today, scientists there work to understand how life emerges in ...

With only 7.5% of Earth's surface covered in fertile, agricultural soil, it's critically important to maintain the soil to grow food, filter water, and regulate the climate.

The team at the University of New Hampshire worked on a mission that will help answer questions about how life formed on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Polaris, also known as the 'Pole Star' or 'North Star', is arguably the most famous stellar body to hang in the western hemisphere's night sky. For centuries it has served as a vital waypoint for ...

NASA is recruiting volunteers to help track the path of the Artemis II mission that is sending a crew to orbit the Moon.