A blue Earth ascends over the barren surface of the moon, against the black void of space. This famous photograph, Earthrise, was taken on Christmas Eve of 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders.

Whatever you’re tucking into this festive season, chances are you didn’t have to kill it yourself or forage it from the wild. For that, you can thank your ancestors who, starting around 10,000 years ...

Scientists were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, but why did it live so long ...

Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called melanosomes, which are ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis from scratch – and may ...

A hybrid grolar bear saga is unfolding in the Arctic, and the tale of this strange family has much to tell us about nature on ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of ...

Small bursts of mindfulness practices lasting a minute or less can have unexpected benefits for those with busy lives - ...

Mean temperatures this year approached 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, making it the second hottest year after 2024 ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

Screen time has been linked to all sorts of problems, from depression and obesity to poor sleep. But how worried should you really be? Jacob Aron sifts through the evidence ...