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

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The human terrarium. The first reality show. Spaceship earth. On Sept. 26, 1991, four men and four women began a two-year ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

This image released by Neon shows Dr. Roy Walford, foreground, with candidates for the Biosphere 2 Project from the documentary "Spaceship Earth." (Peter Menzel/Neon via AP) During lockdown, have you ...

Looking for something completely different yet totally safe to do with your family this weekend? Biosphere 2 is here for you. For the next two months, the grounds of the research facility, originally ...

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 ...

PHOENIX — Arizona is getting a new ocean — or at least a model of one. The “ocean” is coming to the 700,000-gallon aquarium at the Biosphere 2 project northeast of Tucson. Project Manager Rafe Sagarin ...