With China soon to begin its first commercial space flights, we assess the state of play in the world of travel beyond the ...

Many of those who have experienced such a flight have spoken of the "overview effect" - the extraordinary feeling of gazing ...

This article provides an overview of BlueFlux fieldwork operations – see Figure ... Although coastal wetlands account for ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

There's nothing innate about the Earth or its atmosphere that marks the boundaries of low Earth orbit. This is a distinction ...

Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon ...

Between 1969 and 1972, twelve American astronauts walked on the Moon. Now, both the US and China are working to return humans ...

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