New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.

At any given time, about two-thirds of Earth's surface is covered by clouds. Overall, they make the planet much cooler than ...

Tellingly, the fossil-bearing layers contain loads of tiny glass bits called tektites—likely blobs of melted rock kicked up by the impact that solidified in the atmosphere and then rained down ...

Explore the layers of the atmosphere depicted to scale, including the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, ...

Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, ...

Pterosaurs were an amazing group of flying reptiles that occupied the skies around the same time that dinosaurs roamed on ...

A slew of classic films turn 40 this summer, including Back to the Future, Cocoon, The Goonies, and Fletch. Theaters were ...

Theaters were busy in 1985, in other words — which means a number of perfectly solid movies got bumped to the margins while ...

But for her new book out this week, “Atmosphere,” about a woman who joins NASA’s Space Shuttle Program in the 1980s, she needed to go even deeper. “Almost every book I’ve written in the ...

A key component of AR systems are so-called waveguide displays, transparent optical layers that guide light from a projector to the eyes of users, allowing them to see projected images integrated ...