Mars has about 97% as much surface area as Earth’s dry land, a geometrical coincidence created by the oceans covering most of ...

A self-sacrificing mammal becomes bait in an unconventional war against an invasive predator that has conquered the Florida ...

By refusing to look away, a space telescope discovered that planets are commonplace, not rare exceptions to the cosmic rule.

First-light collage for ESO’s MOONS spectrograph on the VLT: Unit Telescope 1 at Cerro Paranal with an inset of Baade’s Window showing fibre pointings. Credit: ESO/MOONS team/VVV survey/F. Char (ESO ...

The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...

A living root bridge starts out looking like something somebody forgot to pull up. A single pale root, no thicker than a shoelace, gets threaded by hand through a hollowed-out betel nut trunk laid ...

Almost everyone over thirty has had the same disorienting thought. The year is ending again. The summer is gone. The decade just turned over and somehow nothing about the calendar feels like it lines ...

Quote of the day, from Friedrich Nietzsche: “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” It’s the kind of line that can sound like a fridge magnet if you meet it cold, the sort of thing ...

The Sun accounts for about 99.86 per cent of all the mass in the solar system. Put the other way around, every planet, moon, asteroid and comet combined comes to roughly 0.14 per cent of the total, ...

On the morning of 10 January 1946, at a scrubby Army post near the New Jersey shore called Camp Evans, a small team of Signal Corps engineers pointed a modified wartime radar antenna at the horizon ...

The familiar comparison runs like this: there are more stars in the observable universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth, a fact wheeled out in planetariums and pop-science segments as the ...

There is a particular kind of quiet that settles around some retired men. It shows up at family lunches, on park benches in the morning, at extended-family gatherings where they used to hold court.