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.

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

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.

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

At 15 square meters with an equal amount of outdoor living space, Jonas Wagell's flat-packed Mini House 2.0 is a lovely prefab retreat that can be assembled in

The Solar Homestead, a nifty homage to early Appalachian mountain settlement camps that wowed the crowds at the 2011 Solar Decathlon, is now available from Ashe

Blu Homes celebrates the East Coast debut of the iconic Breezehouse with an open house weekend in New York's Hudson Valley region.

This weekend: Model homes have a moment (thanks, Netflix!) and Portland maintains its status as the nation's largest fluoride-free city.

Philippe Starck unveils a line of energy-efficient prefab homes with European wood builder Riko.

Check out this video of NYC's first prefab residential building coming to life over a 4-week span in Manhattan's Inwood section.

Madrid-based sustainable architecture firm Ábaton unveils a low-cost prefab housing concept that's as simple as it gets (and interestingly, hypoallergenic).

Watch a tiny prefab home be 'dropped' into a vacant lot outside of Madrid with not much more than an electric screwdriver and a crane.

The gorgeously illustrated "Prefabulous World" highlights some of the most cutting-edge, eco-friendly modular homes in the world.

This teeny-tiny wooden cabin from Spain can be built in several hours (provided you can wrangle several friends to help you).

Assembled on site in just 2 days with the aid of screwdrivers, this boxy plywood beauty is designed to last at least 150 years.

Sleek, slender and topped with solar panels, Heijmans ONE is a rental unit that addresses the dearth of affordable housing options for young professionals.

Shoppers went gaga for 'Leisurama' vacation homes showcased on the department store's ninth floor in the early 1960s.

Powered by the wind and sun, Ecocapsule is the ultimate off-grid micro-home for vagabond vacationers.

In a marriage of modular building and adaptive reuse, one Spanish developer has taken to the rooftops.

A messy winter storm is moving across the eastern half of the United States, threatening to delay holiday travel.

Use a little imagination and a lot of love to create celebratory fare that even the staunchest traditionalists will enjoy.

More than half of Thanksgiving guests will be taking dessert for the holiday. Whether it’s pumpkin pie or not, we’ve got you covered.

NYT and Google teamed up to find the most distinctive Thanksgiving dishes by state. Some of the more unusual ones have whipped topping in common.

It's colder up here and the harvest is earlier, but that's not the only reason Canadian Thanksgiving is different than American Thanksgiving.

'Batman v Superman' star says his Thanksgiving tradition is all about respect for animals.

The true story behind the modern holiday isn't all togetherness and turkey.

Thanksgiving feasts and Christmas treats will be here soon, but being proactive can help you win the battle of the bulge.

Don't want to shop on Black Friday but not sure what else to do? Here are some ideas.

The demise of megalodon coincided with the loss of a third of the largest marine animal species, scientists say.

The 50,000-year-old, perfectly preserved forest is showcased like never before in a newly released documentary.

While hiking in New Mexico's Las Cruces desert, Jude Sparks tripped over a stegomastodon skull.

A Sitka spruce on Campbell Island may be the 'golden spike' that denotes the controversial beginning of the Anthropocene epoch.

Hard-working 'apple detectives' in Washington and Idaho rediscovered 5 types of apples thought to be extinct.

New genetic evidence shows that Solenodons survived the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Preserved human footprints in the White Sands National Monument give us insights into early humans' hunting practices of giant ground sloths.

A new, highly speculative conjecture about the extinction of ancient humans is sure to raise critics' brows.

Based on our mostly destructive history of interacting with isolated cultures, we should stay away.

These volcanic seamounts are rich with life and are estimated to be at least 30 million years old, formed when Australia and Antarctica broke apart.

The first animal to evolve on Earth was probably a sponge that existed around 640 million years ago.

Researchers uncover the remnants of lost continents hidden under the ice sheets of Antarctica.

Located under the Hiawatha Glacier, the impact crater is one of the largest on Earth.

Elasmotherium sibiricum, the so-called 'Siberian unicorn,' is not as closely related to modern rhinos as once thought.

In A.D. 536, a volcanic eruption sent a thick haze into the air that blocked the sun over Europe, the Middle East and some of Asia for 18 months.

If dinosaurs had telescopes and had pointed them at Saturn, they might have seen a ringless world.

Anjouan is an island between Africa and Madagascar littered with sedimentary rocks called quartzite that don't belong there. Are they a chunk of Gondwana?

New research suggests it will take millions of years for extinct species to return to Earth.

Scientists say Zealandia meets all the requirements to qualify as a continent, even though 94% of it is underwater.

The space agency's $650 million Neo Surveillance Mission is designed to spot killer asteroids.