A NASA spacecraft's epic Pluto encounter is officially underway.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has snapped new images of Pluto — the first taken by the probe during its six-month approach to the dwarf planet.

A Pluto-bound NASA probe has captured the best-ever images of the dwarf planet.

Pluto's moons are even stranger and more intriguing than scientists imagined, a new study reveals.

New Horizons is the subject of "Mission Pluto," a special that will premiere July 15 on National Geographic Channel.

Pluto looks especially welcoming in a new photo by NASA's approaching New Horizons probe.

​The first-ever flyby of Pluto was a big success.

A new photo from New Horizons shows Pluto's towering ice mountains cast and frozen nitrogen glaciers.

Flyby images recently beamed home by New Horizons reveal that faraway Pluto has blue skies similar to those of Earth.

NASA's video of New Horizons photos constructs what it would be like to touch down on Pluto — and not just fly by it. It's inspiring.

NASA scientists hatch proposal to redefine what it means to be a planet in our solar system.

Appealing to both storage-conscious oenophiles and fans of modular green building alike, Sunset's 2012 Idea House, a next-generation Breezehouse from Blu Homes,

From prefab powerhouse Blu Homes comes the company's eighth and largest design: A spacious, two-story take on Michelle Kaufmann's pioneering prefab, the Breezeh

In conjunction with Greenbuild 2012, prefab firm Blu Homes announces the acquisition of Modern Cabana, a family-run company specializing in stylish accessory dw

Architect Zaha Hadid is "touring around" a prefab concept with musician/design dabbler extraordinaire Pharrell Williams.

Blu Homes celebrates the East Coast debut of the iconic Breezehouse with an open house weekend in New York's Hudson Valley region.

Snow and near sub-zero temps didn't prevent a horde of prefab admirers — including this blogger — from welcoming Breezehouse to the East Coast.

Two Ontario firms team up to create a charming sleeping cottage concept that's more akin to a giant piece of furniture than an actual small-scale structure.

Despite the unfortunate acronym, the London Original Loft (LOL) proposal cleverly repurposes unused railway viaduct arches into cave-like residences.

Design studio Minarc partners with Habitat for Humanity to (very quickly) bring affordable, net-zero energy prefab homes to low-income areas of South L.A.

Watch a tiny prefab home be 'dropped' into a vacant lot outside of Madrid with not much more than an electric screwdriver and a crane.

A pair of preservation-minded architects are giving away a historic 1926 bungalow sold as a mail order kit home by Sears with one big catch ...

The flashy and fancy new breed of ice fishing shacks are extravagant enough to make grandpa drop his hand auger in disbelief.

Catering to young Londoners struggling to enter the city's real estate market, the YMCA's Y:Cube Housing offers a green prefab-based step toward independence.

In the bucolic exburbs of New York City, a mass-produced home designed by the legendary architect hits the market.

This teeny-tiny wooden cabin from Spain can be built in several hours (provided you can wrangle several friends to help you).

A judge in Okanogan County, Wash. rules that an ill-sited prefab hut must be moved from its landscape-altering perch above the Methow Valley.

Shoppers went gaga for 'Leisurama' vacation homes showcased on the department store's ninth floor in the early 1960s.

In a marriage of modular building and adaptive reuse, one Spanish developer has taken to the rooftops.

On Thanksgiving, people may forgo breakfast or lunch to save room for a feast in the evening.

With all that holiday food prep coming up, now may be the perfect time to teach the little ones some kitchen skills.

Decorate your table with this inexpensive, natural arrangement that also happens to be compostable.

NYT and Google teamed up to find the most distinctive Thanksgiving dishes by state. Some of the more unusual ones have whipped topping in common.

There's more to winter gourds than butternut squash. Here are just a few winter squashes and gourds you might want to consider for your dinner table.

Skip the stores and head outdoors to a nearby state park.

Looking back at the first Thanksgiving offers a way forward for us, says Michael Berman.

Don't want to shop on Black Friday but not sure what else to do? Here are some ideas.

The find is roughly 2 billion years older than any other known fungus fossil.

The demise of megalodon coincided with the loss of a third of the largest marine animal species, scientists say.

Ancient marine reptile sheds light on the origins of the distant relatives of modern crocodiles.

The discovery of rare pterosaur eggs is being heralded as one of the most extraordinary discoveries in paleontology.

The finding indicates that life on Earth began much earlier than previously thought.

Surprising evidence linking Australia and Canada reminds us that our planet is a dynamic place.

A Sitka spruce on Campbell Island may be the 'golden spike' that denotes the controversial beginning of the Anthropocene epoch.

Triassic fossils found on lands that were previously part of Bears Ears National Monument could fall under 'multiple-use' management.

New genetic evidence shows that Solenodons survived the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Pools of water on Earth's moon might have teemed with simple organisms.

The extinct cave bear Ursus spelaeus appears to have descended from a vegetarian line of bears.

Based on our mostly destructive history of interacting with isolated cultures, we should stay away.

The find confirms that America's earliest human inhabitants were here much sooner than previously thought.