We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

Canada has more lakes than any other country in the world, with a huge diversity of lake sizes, depths, shapes, water ...

Rising Sea Surface Temperatures The steady warming of our oceans is akin to placing our planet on a simmering stove. Sea ...

Abundance of Earth-like Exoplanets The universe has no shortage of similarities to Earth when it comes to celestial ...

NASA astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams, one of the two astronauts on an unintentionally extended stay aboard the International Space Station, now holds the record for total spacewalk time by a woman.

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on an unexpectedly monthslong assignment after serving on Boeing’s Starliner crewed test flight, will conduct a spacewalk Thursday. The duo wi ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka.

The microbes were found in the Amazonian peatlands of Peru and could be valuable for sequestering carbon in the damp soils.

A black fungus that's growing in Chernobyl's infamous No. 4 nuclear reactor is absorbing some of its radiation as part of its ...

NASA's upcoming spacewalk could unveil the secrets of microbial life thriving in space. What if these tiny organisms hold ...