There is nothing as terrifying as watching a rabid river ruthlessly undercut its bank, on which houses and hotels begin to teeter, crack, lean over and then in slow motion, fall into the turbulent wat ...

The world's largest-capacity centrifuge — the first of three main centrifuges housed at the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility — has recently begun operating in ...

Accra, Sept. 30, GNA – Thirty years ago, the landmark Fourth World Conference on Women of the United Nations was held in Beijing. The conference adopted the visionary Beijing Declaration and Platform ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly impacts ...

NASA's GRACE satellite detected a large gravity anomaly over the Atlantic Ocean. Meanwhile, Earth-based observatories saw a rapid shift in the planet's geomagnetic field.

If you squint, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk want the same thing: a thriving human civilization that survives beyond the next few centuries. But zoom in, and the roads diverge sharply.

NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.

The bottom line is that the fact that fire is so tightly bound to Earth is a reminder of how special our planet is. Every campfire and candle isn’t just a chemical reaction. It’s a signature of ...

Tyman Clements has two offices: one in Lexington, and the other in space. From a Lego-clad workspace off Winchester Road reminiscent of a high school science classroom turned robotics startup, ...

As they whirl around in low-Earth orbit, satellite configurations are far more sensitive to changes in Earth's gravity field than sensors on the surface. They stay within a detectable proximity to ...

Chrysalis, a 36-mile rotating space habitat, plans to take 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri in approximately 400 years.

The recently launched spacecraft will sit upstream of the solar wind and study it before it gets to Earth. Although they will be traveling a million miles through space, the spacecraft will remain ...