Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A page from the Deseret News on Sept. 26, 1991, as the eight "Biospherians" entered their enclosed life biosphere in Oracle, Ariz.

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. With dreams of colonizing Mars, John P. Allen, who made his millions in oil, funded the ...

The political and social issues we wrestled with in the 1960s and 1970s still haunt us in the 2020s. From social justice to climate change, space exploration to alternative economies, it is curious ...

Biospherians (left to right): Jane Poynter, Linda Leigh, Mark Van Thillo, Taber MacCallum, Roy Walford (in front), Abigail Alling, Sally Silverstone and Bernd Zabel inside the Biosphere 2 in 1990. In ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly plugging away at research... ORACLE, Ariz. — Plopped in the Sonoran Desert, ...

Jane Poynter and seven compatriots agreed to spend two years sealed inside a 3-acre terrarium in the Sonoran Desert. Their mission back in the 1990s: To see whether humans might someday be able to ...

For a few fleeting moments in 1991, the Tucson area became the focal point of the science and pop culture worlds. Months later, it became the laughingstock of those dimensions. Matt Wolf's ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A full-size model Phoenix Lander has landed at Biosphere 2 before it heads, ultimately, to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C "When we send Viking to Mars, or Voyager ...

At the foot of the Santa Catalina Mountains just outside Tucson is Biosphere 2, a sprawling scientific facility with many claims to fame: It is the largest closed system ever created. It hosted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of “Spaceship Earth” sounds like the premise of a sci-fi movie, but in true stranger-than-fiction manner, this Sundance ...

Biosphere 2 started with eight scientists and a very ambitious experiment. Now, almost 35 years later, it's still being used for cutting-edge research. Scientists continue to use it to study Earth's ...