In the early 1990s, eight people agreed to vanish from the world and live for two years inside a sealed glass habitat in the Arizona desert, a kind of fake Earth built to see whether humans could ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The facility, owned by the University of Arizona, was closed for a day in November to accommodate MrBeast's production crew.

TUCSON, Ariz. — As part of our summer series, One Tank Trips, the crew of Good Morning Tucson is taking you to places on much less than a tank of gas. April Madison headed north of Tucson to Biosphere ...

ORACLE, AZ — Four dozen Sonoyta pupfish are now swimming beneath the towering glass pyramids of the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 after a multi-year effort to conserve the critically endangered ...

John de Dios Steve DeLong, project manager for Biosphere 2’s Landscape Evolution Observatory, thanks his large team for their hard work with getting the project up and running. DeLong will leave ...

Before dawn on April 4, 1994, Abigail Alling and Mark Van Thillo slipped across the foothills of Arizona’s Santa Catalina Mountains. They made their way to a looming monument of geodesic domes and ...

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 ...

Tucson-based Solon Corp. has installed a 10-kilowatt pilot project for its new commercial rooftop photovoltaic system at the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 near Oracle. Installed on the roof of ...

Biosphere 2 was scientific research project anticipating space travel and interplanetary settlement. Constructed in the Arizona desert in the late 1980s, the closed domed habitat attempted to create ...