Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?

For billions of years, the Moon has been orbiting Earth. At an average distance of around 384,400 kilometres, it shapes life ...

Environment Centre NT has accused the CLP government of risking water supply in its pursuit of data centre investment, as a ...

NT minister for trade and business Robyn Cahill makes scientifically inaccurate claims while pushing to make territory ‘datacentre capital of the globe’ ...

Earth’s aphelion on July 6 puts it farthest from the sun in 2026, but summer heat comes from Earth’s tilt, long days and direct sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere.

Life on Earth underwent a long evolutionary journey that eventually gave rise to us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates the planet.

On August 12, 2026, lucky viewers in and around Greenland, Iceland and Spain—weather allowing—will be able to see one of ...

The Moon is gradually distancing itself from Earth, which has significant implications for our planet. Over millions of years ...

A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth’s mass extinctions.

Explainer: We've passed the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. It's the 1st of July and it should be getting lighter by now, right?

Bathymetry of the seafloor around the Southeast Indian Rift where two tectonic plates abruptly opened a portal to the magmatic underworld in April 2024. (Royer et al., Nature, 2026) Most of our planet ...

A University of Iowa-led physics team has detailed the extreme expansion of a magnetic cloud that originated from a huge, gaseous explosion on the sun. In a new study, the researchers describe the ...