Eight Princeton professors were elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year: Cliff Brangwynne, Chris Chang, Maria ...

One of the world's most sprawling and populated urban areas, Mexico City has been sinking for more than a century, leaving ...

Look to the southeastern horizon at sunset on June 29 to see the Strawberry Moon climb into the early summer sky, embedded ...

The Moon will be called a Blue Moon on May 31. But will it actually turn blue? Here is the science behind it.

Bans on older versions of “forever chemicals” seem to be working. But emerging variants behave in ways that scientists are ...

Truthful Fiction On a lazy afternoon I stood (gazing) atop of earth’s unique crustal fault: A spectral spectrum of colors ...

The inaugural forum brought innovators and policymakers together to address pressing environmental challenges.

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

Laser sail propulsion is an idea that won't go away. By aiming powerful Earth-based lasers at tiny spacecraft with light sails, tiny spacecraft can be accelerated to near-relativistic speeds without ...

New research published in Science Advances reveals that the largest expansion of coral reefs in the past 100 million years ...

We should embrace this optimistic future, remembering that investment in space exploration is also an investment on Earth.

Exploration Labs has proposed the first commercial deep space ride share mission, known as Apophis EX, to rendezvous with ...