Artistic depiction of a potential asteroid impact. Sometime before the end of the decade, a Chinese spacecraft could race toward a small asteroid at roughly nine kilometres per second (about 20,000 ...

When Apollo 11 touched down on the lunar surface on 20 July 1969, it marked a turning point in humanity's relationship with ...

Millions of years before thick ice spread across the Northern Hemisphere, forces inside Earth lifted East Antarctica into a ...

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Six Iowa 4-H members recently returned from an unforgettable 11-day STEM in Motion expedition through Ecuador, the Galápagos ...

Igneous AI, LLC, a startup co-founded by two geology PhDs from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has ...

Right now, a select group of high school students are mid-way through a science project at Albion College — but they aren’t doing high-school-level work.

Rainfall history is just as critical to predicting air pollution as where the air came from, a team led by University of Michigan Engineering researchers, in collaboration with scientists at the ...

Humanity may already be living far beyond what Earth can sustainably support, according to a sweeping new study analyzing more than 200 years of population and environmental data. Researchers found ...

Isotope analysis of gas from geothermal springs in Zambia could show that a new continental rift is forming, scientists say. Unexpectedly high helium isotope ratios indicate that a weakness in Earth's ...

Space exploration has driven innovation for decades and inspired local scientist Dr. Solange Massa to literally reach for the stars. Massa is the founder and chief executive officer of Ecoatoms, Inc., ...

This is the original “Earthrise” image, taken as the crew of Apollo 8 orbited the Moon on December 24, 1968. This image of Earth as a distant world over the Moon’s horizon has been credited as ...