Scientists have known that Mars is rich in strange chemicals, especially chlorine-based compounds found by orbiters, rovers, ...

ESA project called HOBI-WAN is testing a bacterial protein in microgravity to produce and grow food in space, reducing supply ...

Roy Scranton is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, climate philosopher, and author, most recently, of “Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress.” He teaches at the University of Notre ...

Doesn’t it feel otherworldly out here?” says Colleen Durkin from the lower deck of the Rachel Carson as it glides out from ...

The ocean has long acted as a stabilizing force in the climate system, quietly drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere ...

Cutting down boreal forest and sinking the felled trees in the depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove up to 1 billion tonnes ...

Trees are known for absorbing CO2. But microbes in their bark also absorb other climate-active gases, methane, hydrogen, and ...

Three secondary students in Wexford were selected to take part in a prestigious science programme at a Kildare university, giving them an insight into advanced scientific research.

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

New research points to an unexpected way plastic pollution may be influencing Earth’s climate system. A recent study suggests that microscopic plastic pollution is reducing the ocean’s capacity to ...

Using metagenomic sequencing across a realistic temperature gradient, researchers show that carcass decay triggers a surge in carbon-degradation ...

Five students at Dow High School in Midland, Mich., have co-authored research about agriculture in space that will soon ...