People trust science. So why don’t they believe it?

Halfway through the European Space Agency’s new film, we’re at the part where – if this were some happy space documentary from yesteryear – Carl Sagan might be giving us a tour of a distant galaxy.

Astronaut Thomas Pesquet took this picture of the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft approaching the International Space Station on Friday. Credit: Thomas Pesquet/ESA/NASA.

A photo collage of plastic fragments found in the Arctic Ocean by the research team. A study published Wednesday shows a major ocean current is carrying trillions of bits of plastic from the North Atlantic to the Greenland and Barents seas, and leaving …

President Trump wants to make America’s roads, bridges and tunnels great again. But the Trump administration’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan could be wasted if it ignores the predicted affects of climate change.

Over 70 percent of our planet is covered in water, and we tend to think that’s a lot. A new study suggests that our world is special in this regard, and that most habitable planets are dominated by oceans that consume over 90 percent their surface area.

This week, a kilometer-wide asteroid whizzed by within about a million miles of this planet—about four and half times the distance between the Earth and the moon.

Cassini will make its final close flyby of Saturn’s moon Titan on April 22, 2017. It wil use its radar to reveal the moon’s surface lakes and seas one last time.

How the Trump administration could actually exit the Paris Agreement, as Pruitt suggested, remains unclear. 04/20/2017 03:24 pm ET | Updated 11 hours ago.

A team of researchers have discovered a vast network of lakes, rivers, streams, and channels of meltwater across the continent of Antarctica.

This larger prototype of the Advanced Plant Habitat System illustrates the complex maze of sensors, heaters, water tubes, and lighting that comprise the NASA System of fast-growing plants in the microgravity of space.