Copernicus proved the Earth and other planets orbit the sun, challenging centuries of belief and risking persecution for sharing his heliocentric view.

The distance of the Moon changes over the course of a month as it revolves around the Earth. The moon's orbit is not a ...

The fluorescent lighting illuminates aisles that seem to stretch into infinity, each one packed with potential discoveries that could transform your home, wardrobe, or pantry without transforming your ...

NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.

Earth is far from a static place. That's true in the present, but it's even more apparent when you look to the past, as Earth ...

The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

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 woman I was talking to seemed very sure of her facts, but they didn’t add up to me. She declared that the axis of the ...

Oxford University Press; £9.99 James Lovelock, an English scientist, devoted the second half of his long life to exploring the idea of Gaia: that the Earth and the life that evolved on it worked in ...