University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 has been the site for research on ecological systems and human habitation since it was built in the late 1980s. Now, the 3-acre ecological laboratory about 30 miles ...

Biosphere 2's Ocean Habitat is welcoming corals for the first time in over 30 years, potentially aiding global coral reef ...

UA officials have announced the creation of a $3-million teaching center located at Biosphere 2 designed to bolster educators’ math and science skills. Using grant money, the University of Arizona ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, ...

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 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - YouTube sensation MrBeast recently visited Biosphere 2 to showcase future-focused technologies and their potential impact on humanity. Dressed in a spacesuit from the 2013 film ...

PHOENIX — The Biosphere Fire that was burning outside of Tucson Sunday morning has been fully contained. The wildfire burned approximately 13 acres, according to the Department of Forestry and Fire ...

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 ...

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 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Beginning Thursday, April 27 at 9 a.m., a four-person crew given the moniker Inclusion 1 will make their way inside a sealed, pressurized habitat within the Biosphere 2 compound ...

Nestled in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains, around 31 miles from Tucson, there exists an oasis; a collection of environments one would never anticipate to exist in the scorched Arizona desert.