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Water and brine left behind some key ingredients for life, but the environment they created may not have been very hospitable.

NASA's latest rover to Mars got a close look at rocks that came into contact with water within an ancient crater.

Most galaxies are built around humongous black holes. While many of these are comparatively docile, like the one at our Milky Way's center, some are fierce - guzzling surrounding material and unleashing huge and blazingly bright jets of high-energy particles far into space.

Amid scenes of devastation across the Cianjur region of Indonesia after Monday's earthquake, a five-year-old boy is rescued following days being trapped under the rubble of his flattened home.

COP27, the latest UN climate change summit which was held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, has been condemned for failing to summon an adequate response to the escalating climate crisis. Negotiators did manage to preserve a commitment made in Paris in 2015 to limit global warming to 1.5°C. But emissions of…

Neil Armstrong took his historic “one small step” on the Moon in 1969. And just three years later, the last Apollo astronauts left our celestial neighbour. Since then, hundreds of astronauts have been launched into space but mainly to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. None has, in fact, ventured more…

The former Dunblane High student worked for two years at Mission Control in Texas, overseeing $6billion worth of programmes.

Back-to-back hurricanes left an unnerving scene on the Florida coast in November 2022: Several houses, and even swimming pools, were left dangling over the ocean as waves eroded the property beneath them. Dozens of homes and condo buildings in the Daytona Beach area were deemed unsafe.

Most meteorites are missing flight data. Not so with the Winchcombe meteorite, whose fireball awed hundreds of people in 2021 and revealed its ancient past.

A show with a truly preposterous theory is one of the streaming giant’s biggest hits – and it seems to exist solely for conspiracy theorists. Why has this been allowed?

Scientists and forecasters are trying to figure out how to talk about the connection between climate change and severe weather. It could have big impacts on how people think about global warming.