"Earth Day is an opportunity to help clean this beautiful planet we live on and have taken for granted. We want to do our small part of trying to clean up and preserve the planet for future ...

"To save the world, they'll have to stick together." ...

Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm ...

Fifty-five years ago, on April 22, 1970, the world took note of its burning rivers and acrid air. An overdue shift in ...

A touching portrait of the reluctant comedy writer Douglas Adams who died this May. Absurdly tall, he is described as brilliant, deeply absent minded, a 'force of nature' who 'quite often forgot ...

The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 35 years of groundbreaking discoveries, stunning imagery, and a lasting impact on ...

veteran astronaut Don Pettit reflected on his latest 220-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). "It's good to be back on planet Earth. As much as I love exploring space ...

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Historic flooding in Kentucky killed seven people last month, and 30 counties are seeking disaster assistance. The flooding ...

In the Viking Sky cruise disaster, a massive storm left the ship drifting towards disaster. A desperate evacuation and a race ...

Kosmos 482, a 1,000 lb. former Soviet space probe, is currently expected to renter the Earth's atmosphere between May 8 and ...

Earth's atmosphere is much more sensitive to ripples of radiation from the sun than scientists previously believed, new ...