Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?

We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Earth is getting darker; the planet itself, when viewed from space, appears darker than it did in the past. The upper half actually appears to be getting darker than the bottom ...

To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our home planet from above, countless NASA astronauts have described feeling ...

This story was originally published in the May 15, 2003, issue of Rolling Stone. Read more from that issue and the 2026 American Icons package here. I cons are hard to erase or replace. They’re ...

A giant mirror to create “sunlight on demand” was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), despite opposition from astronomers and the public, and real safety ...