Neither Porto Alegre, Brazil, nor Valencia, Spain, are in the news this week. But they have been before, and almost certainly will be again, as bouts of extreme drought, followed by deluge, become ...

When the world was turned upside down ... Zimbabweans, Bolivians, Guatemalans, and Haitians went on cruises around the ...

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations at 10:09 p.m. EST (0209 ...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 astronauts will test innovative exercise methods to prepare for deep-space missions where bulky gym ...

Astronauts in the past have stayed much longer at International Space Station. Scientists are trying to fully understand the ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

An eight-day trip into space turned into more than eight months for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.

So far, the consequences of these failures have not been lethal. But space remains a difficult, hazardous game. Reentering ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...

Humans have spent centuries shaping the world. But nature wouldn’t hesitate to take over if we suddenly disappeared. Cities ...

Her research-based paintings close the gap between subject matter and material by depicting natural phenomena via the elements that comprise them.