It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an ...

Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

This year brought us our third-known interstellar visitor, beautiful displays of the northern lights and the opening of the ...

Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly's battle with the Pentagon adds to a biography replete with high-profile moments even before he ...

Before he found himself a target of the Trump administration as a US senator, Mark Kelly was a NASA astronaut who flew to ...

From Doom and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes to Metropolis, Hollywood hasn’t predicted the most stable of years ahead ...

The last decade has been the hottest decade in human history.  Driven by drought and extreme winds, a massive fire burned its ...

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

By Elizabeth Devitt They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a small group of scientific specialists searching the world ...

Far below the surface of the Red Sea, in a region long associated with the Biblical story of Moses parting the waters, ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...