Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained ...

SpaceX is gearing up to launch Fram2, the first crewed mission to orbit Earth's poles, on Monday night from the Kennedy Space ...

Credit: Julien Seguinot/Flickr Together, the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets contain more than 99 percent of freshwater ice on Earth. If they both completely melted, they would raise sea level by ...

Will you join us? Scotland’s nature is always worth celebrating – and Earth Hour, as spring unfolds, is the perfect time to do that! This year, mark the moment by connecting with nature around you and ...

NASA James Webb Space Telescope discovers a massive diamond world in space Research indicates that as much as one-third of the mass of the planet may be diamond. In contrast to Earth, which is ...

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited a significant nuclear stockpile. Despite having these nuclear weapons, Ukraine relinquished them due to financial burdens and geopolitical risks.

Sunita Williams Return: NASA astronauts returned to Earth in the wee hours of Wednesday ... Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko set the world record last year at 878 cumulative days.

A constellation of satellites orbiting 250 miles above Earth’s surface ... Renewables Watch, which maps all onshore wind and every large-scale solar farm in the world by using artificial ...

World Frog Day is more than just a date on the calendar – it’s a global wake-up call. For 265 million years, frogs have hopped through Earth’s ever-changing landscapes. They outlived dinosaurs, ...

A widespread underrepresentation of rural populations across the world could have profound impacts ... the idea that Earth could contain a few billion more human inhabitants that we thought ...