Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For over 50 years, Earth Day has been celebrated across the country, and the globe, through the mobilization for environmental ...

Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of them remain unknown to science. Known only by DNA, these "dark taxa" make ...

High-energy electrons from Earth’s magnetic field act like solar wind protons to help form water on the Moon. The Moon interacts with Earth’s magnetic field, a key piece in understanding water ...

These five women at the MIT Media Lab are advancing aerospace science and research, driven by a love of our home planet. The thing that got Danielle Wood ’04, SM ’08, PhD ’12, interested in space was ...

As the climate crisis becomes ever more serious, each Earth Day that comes along takes on extra significance. Established in 1970 in the US, the annual event—which is celebrating its 55th anniversary ...

Apr. 22—Amid the usual hustle and bustle of shuffling feet and moving buses at the Alvarado Transportation Center on Monday morning was the distinct sounds of shovels digging into dirt and children's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of our solar system. The asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter, separating our system into what we ...

In April 1991, Louis Stodieck watched as the space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At the time, Stodieck was associate director of BioServe Space Technologies, a ...