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The Artemis mission is using NASA's brand new Space Launch System, which is the most powerful rocket ever – similar in design to the Saturn V rockets that sent a dozen Apollo astronauts to the Moon.

The NASA Artemis Program aims to land humans on the Moon soon. But to reach the goal of the Artemis III mission, NASA's first two Moon visits must succeed.

Underground greenhouses are helping people to take back control of their nutrition and ease farming amid the climate crisis

Volcanoes can kill the planet that hosts them. A new study suggests why Venus — and not Earth — has suffered this fate.

A deep space community, a compelling critique of empire, a UFO novel like no other and more

The life and humour of one of Manchester's best loved entertainers with newly unearthed photos revealing his life at home

A biodiversity crisis is reducing the variety of life on Earth. Under pressure from land and water pollution, development, overhunting, poaching, climate change and species invasions, approximately 1 million plant and animal species are at risk of extinction.

Jonathan the tortoise, who hatched in the Georgian era, is 190 and the oldest known living land animal on Earth.

In the beginning, God created the heavens, the earth and American higher education. We lived in a bucolic state of nature until an evil serpent, U.S. News & World Report, tempted us to partake of the Tree of Knowledge: namely, college rankings. A fall from grace ensued.

NASA's Orion craft has completed an impressive 'departure burn' manoeuvre on a livestream as it returns back to Earth from its landmark journey around the Moon

Everyone has seen lightning and marvelled at its power. But despite its frequency – about 8.6 million lightning strikes occur worldwide every day – why lightning proceeds in a series of steps from the thundercloud to the earth below has remained a mystery.