This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The planet would be a whole lot hotter if it weren’t for fecal pellets. Across the world’s oceans, tiny ...

The video led people into a discussion that doubled up as 'toilet humor.' A list of bizarre and impossible riddles emerged.

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...

How many times have you needed to use the restroom, only to discover that the only available one was a portable toilet? Suddenly, you actually don’t need to go that badly. We don’t blame you—they look ...

A world-first study has proven microbes essential for human health can survive the extreme forces of space launch. The study has been published in npj Microgravity.

Could These Space Rocks From the Desert Be the First? Two meteorites found in the Sahara show tantalizing similarities to ...