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Where to go – and when – for a glimpse of the spectacular aurora borealis

Visitors to Richborough Roman fort near Sandwich in east Kent will now find a major new addition to the site: a reconstructed Roman fort gateway in timber, flanked by stretches of an earthwork rampart.

Environmentalists rightly urge us to consider the long-term effects of our actions. Plastic bags, they point out, can take hundreds of years to decompose, while radioactive waste can remain dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years. It could take the Earth’s biosphere several million years to recover from human-caused mass…

3 astronauts aboard Artemis 2 are certified amateur radio operators. Will communications with ham radio operators extend from the International Space Station to the moon?

New fossils throw fresh perspective on early animal evolution

Google Earth is a great tool, but it also has a fun game you can play to fly around the world as mapped by Google.

Travellers in Ladakh were in for a surprise when the skies were set ablaze in colourful lights as a strong geomagnetic storm struck Earth's magnetic fields, thereby creating unreal auroras. This rare phenomenon was captured by the Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO) above Mount Saraswati.

"Awkwardness rating: 8/10 (I don't hate you but I also wish you'd be sent to the moon forever)."

An astronomer believes a fireball observed crossing WA's sky this morning was likely a 10-centimetre meteor that entered the earth's atmosphere and travelled west at 14 kilometres per second.

Italian finishes Girona Gravel Earth Series opener in under 13 hours as American takes over an hour off women’s record

The long read: Since being laid low with the virus more than a year ago, Catherine Heymans can only operate in half-hour bursts. But her work could still change the way we understand the universe