A bipartisan group in Congress is drafting a sweeping bill to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency—in some cases, ...

After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock and soil on the Martian surface. Experts are furious ...

The U.S. needs to set an example for the rest of the world, by taking our nuclear missiles off hair trigger alert, and negotiating a reduction of our arsenal ...

Lili Xia is an assistant research professor in the department of environmental sciences at Rutgers University.

Cities across the U.S., including inland ones such as Denver and Dallas, are settling into the earth, posing increased ...

Hit by restructuring, the EPA is reportedly ending the Energy Star program that saves billions for business and consumers ...

Past research shows that there are two major motivations surrounding our social networks: one to meet new people and the ...

Defending our public libraries is part of a larger struggle for the integrity of institutions essential to democracy, writes ...

A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March 1972 ...

Pyrotechnic chemistry drives the Vatican’s recipes for the black and white smoke used to announce papal election outcomes ...

U.S. budget proposal would hollow NASA to a husk bent to Elon Musk’s whims. Only one mission can save the space agency ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...