As companies like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic make waves in space tourism, how long does the rest of the world have to wait ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar orbit.

Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving pole and has significant implications for navigation ...

The LLSVPs are found in what scientists refer to as "slab graveyards," where tectonic plates sink through a process called ...

Mount Everest’s crown as the world’s tallest peak may be slipping. Scientists are buzzing over a jaw-dropping ...

MOUNT Everest has long been considered the tallest mountain on Earth, but new research reveals it might not even come close.

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

Researchers from Utrecht University have found in a study that there are two colossal peaks that reach heights of around 620 ...

New research reveals ancient ripples on Mars, providing compelling evidence of long-lost lakes that once existed 3.7 billion ...

In June 2024 The Economist remembered Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, the mission’s lunar module pilot. Anders also took perhaps the most famous environmental image ever— Earthrise. Against the ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken ...

Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon.