Humans have long sought to geoengineer the Earth’s environment. Tim Flannery outlines a few of the wildest ideas from the 20th century ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the catastrophic domino effect of global darkness, plummeting temperatures, and gravitational chaos that would occur if our lunar companion suddenly vanished from the sky.

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

Every time I see the moon in the sky, it makes me happy. Our natural satellite is so familiar it’s easy to take it for ...

A spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that is in danger of crashing back to Earth.

On May 6, 1968, more than a year before Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong climbed into the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, a ...

A submarine eruption north of Papua New Guinea may be building new land while satellites track its evolution from above.

NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The salvage effort gets ...

When the Strawberry Moon rises above South Carolina on Monday June 29 that is the celestial signal that summer has begun. The ...

Alexander Willis is a senior editor who graduated from the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas and currently lives in the Metro Nashville area, Tennessee. Prior to joining ...

Could Earth have seeded Jupiter's moon Europa with bacterial life, where it could have taken hold in Europa's ocean and perhaps evolved into something more? That's the hypothesis of a new paper in the ...