Researchers studying the deep biosphere, Earth’s largest ecosystem, have found evidence that life thriving miles below the ...

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was ...

Earth’s climate system may be approaching a set of irreversible thresholds that, once crossed, could lock the planet into a dramatically warmer state for centuries. A major multi-author synthesis ...

Two new satellite missions will help NASA scientists better understand Earth and improve the ability to foresee environmental ...

NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.

ORACLE, Ariz. — Plopped in the Sonoran Desert, just outside Tucson, Ariz., sits a massive, multilevel greenhouse that's probably best known as the inspiration for a Pauly Shore movie. A slick, stepped ...

They're all around us: sensors and satellites, radars and drones. These tools form vast remote sensing networks that collect ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, ...