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 ...

Exciting developments are underway at the University of Arizona's Biosphere 2, where corals will soon be introduced into the ...

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 ...

In the midst of climate change, awareness of humanity’s negative impact on the planet has grown, making the idea of moving to another planet more appealing. This led to the concept of Biosphere 2, ...

For the first time during the U of A's tenure at Biosphere 2, corals will be introduced into the ocean habitat as part of a temperature-resilience experiment.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - At the University of Arizona's Biosphere 2, a groundbreaking experiment is shedding light on how humans might one day survive on Mars. For two weeks, researcher Matthias Beach ...

The University of Arizona is assembling steel frames for three massive hill slopes inside Biosphere 2 near Oracle - a process scientists say is akin to building three giant ships in a bottle. The ...

Standing atop Biosphere 2’s iconic rooftop dressed in the same spacesuit George Clooney wore in the 2013 film “Gravity,” YouTube personality MrBeast shared a piece of Southern Arizona with the world ...