From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Before Earth became a blue planet teeming with life, it was a barren, rocky world, dry as dust and chemically incomplete. A new study from the Institute of Geological Sciences ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the effects of a rare type of young, hot star.

In fact, the Euclid Consortium, the international group managing the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, just published the world's most extensive simulation of the universe. It maps an ...