The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even ...

VCU students lead climate change demonstration at Monroe Park, Friends of the James River collaborates with corporations to ...

New Oxford research suggests Earth's water may have originated from its own building blocks, challenging the asteroid theory ...

On Sunday, April 27, the Moon will be about 221,900 miles from Earth when it reaches perigee, the closest distance in its ...

Scientists have known for a while that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has rivers and seas of liquid methane on its surface.

New research using moon rocks from the Apollo missions has revealed hidden dangers facing future astronauts. The study, ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...

Look to the eastern sky late Thursday, and a clear horizon will show you this unusual, grinning planet alignment.

With the Moon and Jupiter aligned, good things are set to happen. The right word, the right moment, or the right idea could ...