The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.

Soil, dirt, earth—whatever you want to call it, most of us don’t give much thought to the stuff that lies underfoot. Which is a big mistake, according to Soil: The World at Our Feet ...

WE CAN ALL see that the daylight length is getting longer at each end of the day. In less than two weeks, spring officially begins.

3D printers will make the tools, structures and habitats space pioneers need to survive in a hostile alien environment. They will enable long-term human presence on the Moon and Mars.

This suggests that playing in the dirt as a child and being ... the space station has almost no soil microorganisms that one would normally encounter on Earth, which could make astronauts more ...

NASA researchers suggest that adding microbes to space habitats could help astronauts' immune systems stay stronger.

Here a few things to consider as you get ready for spring gardening, including bed preparation, mulching, and more.

On a sunny Tuesday afternoon, a tractor plowed a half acre of red soil as volunteers from Pine Grove Methodist Church nearby carved out the sprouted eyes of potatoes and tossed them into buckets for ...