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Walt Disney World has announced that Spaceship Earth will be temporarily closing for refurbishment later this summer.
In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...
Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is visiting a home away from Earth that has seen continuous human presence ...
"Spaceship Earth" gets it right. The new documentary, released May 8, breaks the mystery of the Biosphere 2 experiment wide open, revealing the facts in a story that feels more like science ...
Earth as our spaceship, uniquely designed to support life. Like a finely tuned machine, it requires us to account for every detail in how we convert energy from one form to another.
Can space save Earth? A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., in May 2020. (John Raoux / Associated Press) By Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky.
Space debris has crashed back into Earth in recent months. In February, debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off in the United States entered the Earth's atmosphere over Poland.
The moon is hot right now. By some estimates, as many as 100 lunar missions could launch into space over the next decade — a level of interest in the moon that far surpasses the Cold War-era ...
Space on Earth. Interestingly, technologies developed for use in space can also help on Earth. A classic example is solar panels. Invented back in 1954, during the era of coal-fired power stations ...