A bipartisan group in Congress is drafting a sweeping bill to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency—in some cases, ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

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Hit by restructuring, the EPA is reportedly ending the Energy Star program that saves billions for business and consumers ...

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Defending our public libraries is part of a larger struggle for the integrity of institutions essential to democracy, writes ...

Lili Xia is an assistant research professor in the department of environmental sciences at Rutgers University.

The U.S. needs to set an example for the rest of the world, by taking our nuclear missiles off hair trigger alert, and negotiating a reduction of our arsenal ...

After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock and soil on the Martian surface. Experts are furious ...

Pyrotechnic chemistry drives the Vatican’s recipes for the black and white smoke used to announce papal election outcomes ...

U.S. budget proposal would hollow NASA to a husk bent to Elon Musk’s whims. Only one mission can save the space agency ...

As spring warms the eastern U.S. and green shoots peek from the ground, other forms of life stir in the soil. Periodical ...