
Three astronauts are gearing up to launch to China’s space station in low Earth orbit, where they will spend six months carrying out a variety of experiments.

Three astronauts are gearing up to launch to China’s space station in low Earth orbit, where they will spend six months carrying out a variety of experiments.

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.

NASA is considering alternative ways to bring back samples from Mars after its budget and schedule for the sample return mission was deemed unrealistic in a recent report by an independent review board.

Amid announcing one of its biggest iPhone releases of the last few years, Apple dedicated a big part of last month’s Wonderlust product announcement to its supposedly sw

Global climate extremes are adding up, and scientists are warning with renewed urgency that both natural and human systems are at risk of collapse.

SpaceX has reached a deal to launch four Galileo satellites next year in coordination with the European Space Agency, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

The natural world is filled with dramas that play out on the macro- and microscopic scales, in our cities and in remote wilderness alike. In the British Ecological Society’s annual photo competition, ‘Capturing Ecology,’ those activities take center stage as flora and fauna of all sorts find a way to persist in every…

Temperatures are currently cooling down across the U.S., but much of the country is in for a warmer, wetter winter than usual, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in this year’s winter outlook.