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The star of the night sky thus far in 2023 has been Comet E3 ZTF

“Knock at the Cabin” is a real load — 100 lugubrious minutes of what is intended as steadily mounting dread and apocalypse prevention seminar.

The Pilbara region of Western Australia is home to one of the most ancient surviving pieces of Earth’s crust, which has been geologically unchanged since its creation some 3.5 billion years ago.

Explorer 1 marked the entry of science into what had been a military affair.

"Polar vortex" has gained popularity and is used in the winter, when the Northern Hemisphere experiences its coldest months

A new study of rubble pile asteroids means we may have to rethink planetary defense strategies

Tonight and tomorrow (February 2 2023) stargazers could be treated to a lovely sight of a green comet passing by Glasgow's skies. You should be able to see it with the naked eye. Here is what you need to know.

A weird object spotted by Swift ended up being a pair of stars — one of which muted the most violent outbursts of a supernova.

We need to reduce our energy consumption and embrace 'degrowth’, in which we redesign the economy to put human and environmental wellbeing at its centre, writes Dr Catherine Knight

In the Lake Albert region, in northwestern Uganda, TotalEnergies plans to extract large quantities of oil buried deep in the ground. Work has already started. Backhoe loaders are digging the soil across the savannah. At the top of the embankments of red earth designed to diminish the noise of machines,…

‘Water is there for fish to swim through. Air is there for birds to fly in. But we have to make fire – and how we go forward with our need is key to our place on Earth’