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Blast off with the 'Space Gal' Emily Calandrelli for World Space Week on Arm and Hammer's Baking Soda Rocket Day
By Josh Dinner published
Join 'Space Gal' Emily Calandrelli to help Arm and Hammer celebrate Baking Soda Rocket Day with 14,000 nationwide.

How one scientist's wide-eyed dream of giant space cities was crushed by reality
By Keith Cooper published
As part of World Space Week, which is highlighting the theme of living in space, we look at one scientist's dream of gigantic space habitats.

Why can't we feel the Earth moving?
By Nilakshi Veerabathina published
As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, you're along for the ride as our planet constantly moves in two major ways.

Air quality analysis reveals minimal changes after xAI data center opens in pollution-burdened Memphis neighborhood
By Namuun Batbaatar, Abu Mohammed Naser Titu, Chunrong Jia published
A team of researchers discusses how the xAI plant in Memphis emitted normal amounts of air pollution.

NASA pilot suits up to scan the Earth | Space photo of the day for Oct 3. 2025
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published
As NASA's ER-2 aircraft takes flight over the American Southwest, the GEMx mission is using high-altitude hyperspectral imaging to uncover Earth's hidden mineral resources

Erie Canal seen from space, is now 200 years old | Space photo of the day for Oct 1. 2025
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published
Two centuries after its completion, the Erie canal is celebrated from space, with NASA satellite imagery showing the engineering feat of this structure.

Biosphere 2's latest mission: Learning how life first emerged on Earth – and how to make barren worlds habitable
By Ghiwa Makke, Scott Saleska, Chris Impey published
Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, Biosphere 2 looks almost like a colony on another planet.

Secrets of ancient life on Earth may live in Japan's hot springs
By Stefanie Waldek published
Ancient iron-metabolizing microbes may have turned toxic oxygen into an energy source.
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