For decades, families in communities around Johannesburg have been living close to huge gold mining waste dumps. For many ...

When a NASA scientist finally cracked open a cache of 50-year-old lunar soil, the expectation was to refine old models, not ...

What if your next vacation took place on the Moon? Once confined to science fiction, this idea is now taking shape thanks to ...

This four-month investigation was supported by a Kozik Environmental Justice Reporting grant funded by the National Press ...

With a synchronized tap from run-of-the-mill hammers on metal plates resting on the ground, researchers kneeling in nine fields across four continents believe they’ve hit upon more than just the earth ...

A UT chemist says it is now time to develop tests for microplastics, similar to tests for other toxic threats.

The N.C. Department of Transportation could close lanes and shoulders of a New Hanover County road so crews can safely test soil for a future project. Contractors will perform drilling operations on ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though quantum physics says their exact position is fundamentally uncertain. Now, ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study. The research ...

The Vietnam Space Museum (Hanoi) features light art installations, models of spacecraft simulating the scale of the universe, allowing viewers to journey from Earth to the entirety of space, and ...

Nicole Steinmetz engineers plant virus nanoparticles into versatile drug-delivery platforms. This work expanded into cancer ...