Newly unclassified recordings reveal eerie radio sounds heard during an Apollo mission that weren't coming from Earth.

Smithsonian Channel special celebrates the surprising history behind the flag that inspired our national anthem more than 200 years ago.

The Elbphilharmonie features over 1 million computer-generated divots to shape sound within its main auditorium.

Nocturnal opera isn't just for owls, as these audio clips make clear.

A stray cat helped Sarper Duman recover from depression, and now he helps other strays and plays piano for them.

The Vegetable Orchestra has been stunned crowds and serving soup for 17 years.

Wastewater storage from fracking may be causing earthquakes. For now, Arkansas is stopping operations.

In his State of the Union speech, Obama unveils plans to expand U.S. oil and gas production, but vows not to 'walk away from the promise of clean energy.'

Residents of Pennsylvania's top natural gas-producing town will soon know what may be lurking in their drinking water wells. Federal environmental regulators ar

Director Josh Fox's follow-up to his 2010 documentary on the natural gas industry sparks drama at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Workers fled the leaking gas well hours before it caught fire, once again shedding light on the Gulf of Mexico's risky relationship with offshore drilling.

Two Pennsylvania children, ages 7 and 10 have been permanently banned from talking about fracking.

The worldwide shortage of helium threatens many industrial, medical and military applications far beyond balloons.

Actor says $1 from every ticket sold will go towards relief efforts in devastated Japan.

Kids living just outside the evacuation zone will be tested for cumulative radiation exposure.

The massive tsunami generated by the March 2011 earthquake off the coast of northeastern Japan was a "merging tsunami" — a type of tsunami long thought to exi

Higher elevations are the only escape from these gigantic waves.

Debris from the deadly tsunami that struck Japan in 2011 is drifting across the Pacific Ocean toward North America.

Meet Chris Robinson, an average California dad who just happens to be constructing a 22-foot-long tsunami escape pod out of plywood in his backyard.

Student film "Battle Behind the Bottle" tells the story of the cork industry positive response to the “kick in the pants” screw tops and plastics gave it.

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City talks with Rachel Maddow about his new PBS documentary about Pluto and its status as a planet

Pluto and its mysterious neighbors hold perhaps some of the most exciting astronomical discoveries to come.

Though the dwarf planet Eris on the edge of the solar system is much denser than Pluto, the two frigid worlds are nearly exactly the same size, a new study find

Scientists announced the discovery of a new moon around Pluto on July 11, bringing the dwarf planet's number of known satellites to five.

The moons of Pluto, and a potential set of rings, may create dangerous debris zones for a NASA spacecraft currently speeding toward the distant world, researche

If you've ever wanted to leave your mark on the heavens, here's your chance.

The votes are in, and it looks like 'Vulcan' could be the new name for one of Pluto's smallest moons.

It's official! Two tiny moons orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto finally have new names: Styx and Kerberos.

A NASA spacecraft's epic Pluto encounter is officially underway.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has snapped new images of Pluto — the first taken by the probe during its six-month approach to the dwarf planet.

A Pluto-bound NASA probe has captured the best-ever images of the dwarf planet.

With NASA's New Horizons probe zeroing in on Pluto, due to pass it on July 14, attention of astronomers all over the world is focusing in on Pluto.

Pluto's moons are even stranger and more intriguing than scientists imagined, a new study reveals.

Kids around the world can say hello to Pluto ahead of the first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet this summer.

New Horizons is the subject of "Mission Pluto," a special that will premiere July 15 on National Geographic Channel.

Pluto looks especially welcoming in a new photo by NASA's approaching New Horizons probe.

With Pluto's unveiling on the horizon, here's a quick look at past and present efforts to study the elusive world.

When it comes to tracking New Horizons's Pluto flyby, you have options.

Here are five things researchers can learn about Earth by studying the dwarf planet Pluto.

​The first-ever flyby of Pluto was a big success.

Scientists are stunned at the incredible new images of the surface of Pluto, its largest moon Charon and its farthest-flung moon Hydra.

A new photo from New Horizons shows Pluto's towering ice mountains cast and frozen nitrogen glaciers.

Flyby images recently beamed home by New Horizons reveal that faraway Pluto has blue skies similar to those of Earth.

NASA's video of New Horizons photos constructs what it would be like to touch down on Pluto — and not just fly by it. It's inspiring.

NASA scientists hatch proposal to redefine what it means to be a planet in our solar system.

A new NASA video uses photos from New Horizons to give you a sense of what it would be like to soar over Pluto.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle, Habitat for Humanity constructs a prefab-hybrid home that incorporates various future-t

With Sonoma County in the bag, affordable prefab builder Blu Homes unveils its first project in Southern California: a remote, low-impact desert retreat owned b

In conjunction with Greenbuild 2012, prefab firm Blu Homes announces the acquisition of Modern Cabana, a family-run company specializing in stylish accessory dw

Prefab builder Blu Homes details a few considerations — energy-efficient and climate change-ready among them — when thinking about your future home.