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Streaks of light are produced by friction as debris, usually the size of a grain of sand, rubs against the Earth’s atmosphere. The Orionids are caused by Halley’s Comet.

The dual pressures of climate change and plastic pollution are frequently conflated in the media, in peer-reviewed research and other environmental reporting.

The dark spot on the Earth is the moon's shadow.

A bright burst of radio waves from a distant galaxy created a helpful snapshot of the universe's structure.

Why do we feel stuck in our efforts to solve the great sustainability crises of the 21st century? Between the dire need to successfully mitigate climate change while making progress on human-focused Sustainable Development Goals, the challenges of the Anthropocene — the era in which we now live — can…

The Kaokoveld region, covering north-western Namibia and south-western Angola, is one of the remotest areas in southern Africa. Although it’s extremely dry, it is a centre of species endemism: many species occur only there and nowhere else on earth.

Imagine a particle so small that it’s the same relative size to a football as that ball is to the planet Earth. That’s the size of a quantum dot – a type of nanocrystal that changes colour depending on its size, and was once thought impossible to actually produce.

A new study describes how massive solar storms could destroy our electrical grids

Eyewitnesses say their houses shook as they heard ‘loud explosion’

Okay, it probably wasn't aliens.

Doreen and Mernda residents describe seeing flash of light followed by ‘massive explosion’ on Wednesday night