Building Biospheric reimagines architecture as a living organishm - a structure that breathes, grows, and sustains life. The task is to design a self-sustaining, biospheric architectural complex that ...

In his inauguration speech in January, United States President Donald Trump declared the US would "plant the stars and ...

Year after year, humanity is setting new records for the amount of stuff we're sending into the Earth's orbit, spurred mostly ...

Seismic wave data previously suggested the Earth’s hot inner core is slowing its spin. Now, researchers say it’s also deforming around the edges ...

SETI scientists try to determine whether aliens at a similar technology level to humans could detect Earth and from how far ...

Near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, has scientists worried about a disastrous impact that could spark an "impact winter." ...

Love Stories is a series about love in all its forms, with a new essay each day through the week of Valentine’s Day. This year we are focusing on astrological forces. Love is a messy and mysterious ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

For International Women and Girls in Science Day, the museum’s Ocean Portal spoke with “Her Deepness” about science, seaweed ...

An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time ...

Synthetic cells that look just like natural cells but are chemically reversed could outcompete other living organisms − with ...