After temporarily halting tours due to COVID-19, visitors will again have the opportunity to visit Biosphere 2, designated as one of "50 must see wonders of the world" by LIFE Magazine. Beginning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the first part in a two-part series detailing developments in the UA’s operation of Biosphere 2. The UA looks to tackle “”grand challenges”” and inform the public about science ...

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 ...

Just two hours away lies the second most populated city in Arizona. Tucson is widely known as a UNESCO City of Gastronomy, making it the first city in the United States to receive this designation.

Biosphere 2 was a highly ambitious experiment to simulate a self-sustaining Mars colony in the Arizona desert. Eight men and women locked themselves inside for 2 years and experienced one incredible ...

Thirty years ago last month, on Sept. 26, 1993, a group of eight weary, visionary adventurers “returned” to Earth after two years of living together in a miniature version of our world — a ...