ORACLE, Ariz. — Plopped in the Sonoran Desert, just outside Tucson, Ariz., sits a massive, multilevel greenhouse that's probably best known as the inspiration for a Pauly Shore movie. A slick, stepped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biosphere 2 is a research facility located near Tucson, Ariz. Katja Schulz/Flickr, CC BY From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from ...

Editor’s note: This is the first part in a two-part series detailing developments in the UA’s operation of Biosphere 2. The UA looks to tackle “”grand challenges”” and inform the public about science ...

Biosphere 2 will continue to operate as one of the world’s most diverse controlled ecological systems thanks in part to a $30 million endowment from its co-founder. Philanthropist Edward P. Bass, who ...

ORACLE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — Firefighters in southern Arizona have contained a wildfire that broke out Sunday morning near the famous Biosphere 2 facility. Arizona State Forestry officials said in a ...

Does anyone actually remember Biodome 2? Decades after it happened, it's taken on the form of fringe events that like militias and One World Order opponents and the Branch Davidians and Heaven's Gate ...

Thirty years ago last month, on Sept. 26, 1993, a group of eight weary, visionary adventurers “returned” to Earth after two years of living together in a miniature version of our world — a ...

ORACLE, Ariz. (KVOA) - The second Inclusion mission on the grounds of Biosphere 2 will end at 10 a.m. on Monday. This is part of a series of missions in which crews are sealed inside a pressurized ...

The rare Sonoyta pupfish were introduced into a desert river habitat inside the huge Biosphere 2 structure near Tucson. The dish are native to Quitobaquito Springs near the Arizona-Mexico border, but ...

For this episode of New Frontiers… Host Erika Hamden gets a tour of Biosphere 2; learn about how a new technology called “agrivoltaics” is changing how we think about growing vegetables; read a new ...