BRITS are clueless about our solar system – with four in 10 unable to identify the biggest planet and a quarter uncertain ...

A new survey has revealed many Brits are clueless about the solar system with four in ten unable to identify the biggest ...

Now researchers say one of the most important lithium discoveries on Earth may be hiding in plain sight. Beneath remote desert hills along the Nevada and Oregon border, a long-dead volcano may contain ...

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

A powerful fine-grid climate model finds hidden drivers of extreme rain, projecting a major jump in flooding as the planet ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

The largest known exoplanet has seven times the radius of Jupiter, 752 times its mass, and would take five months to circumnavigate by plane. Cleaning woman shot and killed after arriving at wrong ...

A mong the hilly forests of southern China, scientists have discovered the largest modern meteorite impact crater on Earth. Dubbed the Jinlin crater, the giant pitted scar could become an invaluable ...

Arachnophobes look away now. Deep inside a pitch-black cave straddling the Albanian-Greek border, researchers have uncovered what may be the largest spider web ever recorded—teeming with more than 111 ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

From Russia to the US, discover the world’s biggest forests by area and more about their fascinating history The total forest area in the world is 4.1 billion hectares, or 32 per cent. For context, ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...