Most of the rocks that fall from the heavens are tiny, ending up as meteors or fireballs, burning brightly in the sky in a more or less continuous fall. More serious objects are r ...

Amazingly, this highly conventional system of signs appears to have been used for a period of almost 10,000 years before vanishing, only to be re-developed by the Sumerians many millennia later and ...

But sometimes, his inventions took on a more playful bent. Not for nothing was the classical Arabic term for mechanics and ...

Turns out space stinks, but how do we know what cosmic objects smell like and can we recreate it here on Earth?

There are things the NASA chief has "come across in the job that he can’t explain," but aliens are not among them.

The other discovery is the cooling of the atmosphere. Combining the observations from JWST with measurements from Voyager 2, ...

Located in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Taklamakan Desert is one of the driest places on Earth ...

Complex cells are thought to be the result of a union between two ancient microorganisms, but scientists have long been ...

I n 2013, deep within a Canadian mine, geologists discovered a fracture that contained the oldest known water on Earth. Hidden nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) below the surface, the ancient water had ...

W hen Justin Schmidt was just seven years old, he had a run in with a bee that would send him down a curious path. The offending insect was a honeybee that – annoyed it had been plucked it from a ...

Even palaeontologists used to digs in forbidding places might have baulked at this one, but the results more than vindicated ...

It’s not that rare for the Moon to pass in front of Mercury, but it seldom happens when it is this easy to watch.