Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon.

Recent analysis of amino acid prevalence goes back to the theoretical common ancestors of life.

This initiative seeks to unlock significant high-value critical mineral resources, offering advanced processing opportunities ...

SpaceX is preparing to beta test direct-to-cell Starlink satellites, which will connect anyone with a phone to cellular service anywhere in the world.

A solar explosion called a coronal mass ejection is poised to graze Earth on Friday or Saturday (Jan. 24 or Jan. 25), potentially triggering colorful auroras over the northern U.S.

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became a basin of desolation, cut off from the global ocean during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). This period saw ...

The vast majority of successful launches and landings of SpaceX rockets have been of the Falcon 9, though that has taken several forms as SpaceX iterated upon the original design.

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

The Hughes fire ignited on Wednesday afternoon, growing to more than 8,000 acres in a few hours. The new wildfire grew quickly overnight and was dubbed an "immediate threat to life" by the California ...

C.E.O.s, policymakers and billionaires at the World Economic Forum’s conference have long pledged to fight climate change. Has it done any good?

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.