The longest day of the year should be the perfect time to get a tan, right? But does all that exposure to the Sun also make us more vulnerable to the effects of solar storms? The longest day, also ...

On a clear night, it dominates the sky, bright enough to cast shadows and large enough for dark patches and surface features ...

Could Mars become habitable with the help of glitter-like iron rods? If we want to terraform the Red Planet to make it better able to host microbial life, tiny rods of iron and aluminium may be the ...

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet X, that might be warping the orbits of objects beyond Neptune Earth is no ...