Global politics don't feel particularly cooperative at the moment, but which countries could actually feed themselves independently if all international food trade shut down?
An international team of astronomers discovered a giant planet orbiting the smallest known star to host such a companion. It’s a finding that defies current theories of planet formation.
From towering coastal redwoods to dinosaur-era Wollemi pines and firs that make the perfect Christmas trees, even our most revered woody plants are in grave danger.
Researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice in a dusty debris disk that orbits a Sun-like star 155 light-years away using detailed data known as spectra from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
When the New Horizons spacecraft swept past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it revealed two amazingly complex worlds and an active atmosphere on Pluto.
In this blog, Professor Enrique Gaztanaga from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth, puts forward a new theory about how the Universe was created.
The collapse of the Swiss Birch glacier serves as a chilling warning of the escalating dangers faced by communities worldwide living under the shadow of fragile ice, particularly in Asia, experts say.
But Earth's atmosphere wasn't always like it is today, and scientists predict that in the future, it will revert back to one that's rich in methane and low in oxygen.
South Africa's land is rising due to long-term drought. GPS and satellite data show the uplift is linked to drying underground water.
Researchers have used new clues from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to provide a fascinating insight into how the exoplanet WASP-121b formed.
20 years of observations have given us more knowledge about the icy giant.
In 2024, Brazil celebrated the 20th anniversary of the BFP - one of the world’s largest conditional cash transfer initiatives. BFP has prevented more than 8.2 million hospitalisations and 713,083 deaths in Brazil between 2004 and 2019.
The JWST shows that ice on Europa is developing at different rates in different places, such as Tara Regio, where crystalline ice (lighter colors) is found on the surface as well as below the surface.
A team at the National Solar Observatory is using AO to examine the Sun's corona in unprecedented detail.
In a new study we report the discovery of a new long-period transient – and, for the first time, one that also emits regular bursts of X-rays.
