This mission will be exceptional because, for the first time in history, humans will observe both poles of Earth from orbit. Four commercial astronauts will embark on a private mission to space, ...

This mission will be exceptional, as for the first time in history, humans will see both poles of Earth from Earth orbit.

A newly found super-Earth could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets twice the diameter of Earth.

The U.N. has identified Kabwe, a city of almost 300,000 people in Zambia, as one of the most polluted places on the planet.

Official and unofficial teachings in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, namely a belief in a premortal life, ...

It’s not much of a stretch to say that Earth’s inner structure, especially the innermost spherical core, has stupefied ...

The skull is among thousands of human remains the university has said it will return to their original Native American ...

The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...

Net accumulation of snow, part of the ice sheet’s surface mass balance ... the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets contain more than 99 percent of freshwater ice on Earth. If they both completely ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH), a consortium led by Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Space Medicine with partners Caltech and MIT, announced today six human ...

Greenlanders in recent years have been embracing pre-Christian Inuit traditions like drum dancing or getting Inuit tattoos.