Viewing Earth from the Space Station

In this June 2021 image, our Sun’s glint beams off the Indian Ocean as the International…

Astronomers work out when the first stars shone

Called the “cosmic dawn”, this period happened between 250 and 350 million years after the Big…

Thomas and the blue marble

Image: A snap of ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet during the second spacewalk to upgrade the International…

Keeping homes and cities cool in extreme heat: Tips from Tucson

It’s not just you—it really has been absurdly hot in Tucson lately. Click here…

New research unearths importance of 'subterranean estuaries' to sustainable fishing and aquaculture industry

Pioneering research, led by a team from Trinity and the Marine Research Institute of the Spanish…

Water vole genome will help boost conservation of one of UK's most endangered mammals

A new tool to help conserve one of the UK’s most threatened mammals has been released…

Army Corps plans extensive review of Great Lakes tunnel plan

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday it would conduct an extensive review of Enbridge…

Western drought brings another woe: voracious grasshoppers

A punishing drought in the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers…

'Crazy' ants that kill birds eradicated from Pacific atoll

An invasive species known as the yellow crazy ant has been eradicated from a remote U.S.…

See you in 17 years: America's cicada plague winding down

They’ve been everywhere, crawling up trees and flitting about clumsily in search of a mate, droning…