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In the 20th century, scientists began to suspect Earth was a lot older than we thought. It was our old friends/deadly foes, ...

All the biggest science news stories of the week.

The combination of the Spring equinox and the Sun's solar cycle starting towards its minimum means now is the last best time ...

The zodiacal light – so called because it appears within the same belt of constellations as the zodiac signs (and is a light) – looks like a huge ghostly pyramid in the sky, its vertical axis tilted ...

Orcas don’t have any natural predators, so how did this happen? The tooth marks, it turned out, were distinctive – they were ...

London’s Natural History Museum had to swap out T. rex breath for “Maastrichtian Miasma” because it was too disgusting.

We spoke to Dr Steve Boyes about his search for what could be the world’s largest terrestrial animal.

Good news for the Moon, disappointing for everyone who wanted to see a really big impact from the safety of our planet.

In 1986, Kihachiro Aratake was diving off the coast of Yonaguni when he spotted a giant structure 25 meters below the surface ...

Doctors weren't sure if they were dealing with a mass or a foreign object, but "it looked like a toy traffic cone." ...

Now we know we also changed Didymos's orbit around the sun, and we did so without even touching it. We knew the impact on Dimorphos − which is about 160 meters across compared with Didymos's 765 ...