There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

Information about the gravitational fields of Mars has recently been analyzed and seems to reveal that there are a number of ...

With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...

Both science and politics need to take account of this, and fast. Don’t have time to read about climate change as much as you ...

Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that ...

If you’ve ever followed a navigation app only to have it drift off course, the culprit responsible for the mix-up may be ...

But for a couple of hours on the morning of November 6, the term “ darkest timeline ” trended in Google searches, and several physicists posted musings on social media about whether we were actually ...

EXCLUSIVE: The head of a leading charity for older people has said most rely on traditional ways of accessing the service.

The amber, excavated from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, provides a unique snapshot of life in prehistoric ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...