First Genetic Results From Scott Kelly's Year In Space Reveal DNA Mysteries

After recent events, we're all ready to hop aboard the next flight to Mars. But before us Earthlings embark on a seven-month journey to the Red Planet, we need to understand how the harsh conditions of space can affect our bodies.

Explained: Greenhouse gases

Carbon dioxide isn't the only one that matters, and the gases vary widely in potency and duration.

Big Data Is Helping Us See Environmental Problems in a Whole New Light

In the last few years, conservationists and others have turned to big data to get the big picture on environmental degradation, helping to wrangle answers to some of the globe’s most pressing problems.

Cassini offers best-ever view of Saturn's rings

A sequence of images captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft last month are the most detailed pictures ever taken of Saturn’s famous rings, revealing complex, unexplained bands and the movements of dozens of tiny icy moonlets spinning around the planet.

China to set up world's highest altitude telescopes close to India border

The telescope, located 5,250 meters above sea level, will detect and gather precise data on primordial gravitational waves in the Northern Hemisphere. It is expected to be operational by 2021.

Hubble's Spacetime Warps Confirm That the Universe Is Expanding Far Faster Than Expected

By using a space-time quirk first predicted by Einstein, the Hubble Space Telescope has also made it clear that our theories to explain the evolving universe are far from complete.

Dalai Lama on Analytic Meditation And How It Helps Cultivate Positivity

The Dalai Lama often recommends a particular form of Buddhist meditation called 'analytic meditation'. In this type of meditation, he said, one needs meditate on the information accumulated by the mind from various sources and use reasoning to decode and decrypt it.

Indian scientists show a breakdown of the Standard Model

By comparing standard theory and experiment, they show a discrepancy which can indicate new physics.

Tropical park with native species will add much-needed green space to Hong Kong

The concrete jungle of Hong Kong will soon become a bit greener. Landscape architecture firm revealed landscape designs to create a new public space that will inject much-needed green space to the dense urban environment.

Do personal steps to reduce your carbon footprint really make much difference?

Do our individual actions matter anymore? Are the lifestyle suggestions actually meaningful? Do they still make any sense?

New York Just Greenlighted The Country's Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Yet

The company behind the first offshore wind farm in North America won approval Wednesday from New York state to build the country’s biggest seaward turbines yet.

World's first 3D-printed pedestrian bridge pops up in Madrid

Behold, the world’s first 3D-printed pedestrian bridge.

Scientists unveil new form of matter: Time crystals

Two teams built a time crystal, the first examples of a non-equilibrium form of matter.

The End Is Near for the Biggest Coal Plant in the American West

Cheap natural gas could force the closure this year of the Navajo Generating Station near the Grand Canyon, dealing another blow to coal as a chief source of electricity in the U.S.

Finding Alien Life Could Be a Simple Chemistry Test Away

A very simple chemical analysis is being developed by NASA scientists that could someday be used by robotic missions on other worlds to detect alien biology.