A 2021 satellite image shows destructive lava flows burning through a residential area in the Canary Islands as molten rock ...

A 2021 satellite image shows destructive lava flows burning through a residential area in the Canary Islands as molten rock ...

The idea of farming on Mars or the Moon has captured imaginations for decades, but the reality is far less romantic. While Martian soil contains essential nutrients, it lacks the biological life that ...

Modern new developments are opening on the site of former tank farms, one of the city's most notorious environmental ...

A daring and revolutionary plan tosample Venus’s hostile atmosphere was unveiled by a coalition of China’s leading space ...

On Feb. 27, 1988, the first of my weekly columns on stargazing appeared in print. More than 1.5 million words later, I sit ...

Waste from old landfill sites is spilling onto beaches as rising seas erode coastlines - and some of it is toxic ...

At the Berkeley Pit, researchers hope to extract valuable metals to increase U.S. production of rare earths used in electric ...

Missions that return asteroid samples bring home more than just very expensive dust. These samples can provide valuable ...

A Soviet spacecraft that's been stuck in low Earth orbit ever since it launched in 1972 has finally crashed back down to our planet. Kosmos 482 rocketed into space more than 50 years ago on a ...