The colossal movements of tectonic plates shape our world, influencing the composition of Earth’s atmosphere, the planet’s protective magnetic field and perhaps even the flourishing of life. Now ...

Movies like "Disclosure Day" and "Project Hail Mary" renew our fascination with extraterrestrials and the idea that humankind is not alone in the universe.

Among those bits and bobs in the case of Project Hail Mary is the sci-fi novel of the same name by Andy Weir, who also wrote the book that served as the source material for Ridley Scott’s The Martian.

Deep in the cold darkness beyond our Solar System, Oxford-led astronomers have discovered a world that defies easy categorisation: a small, rocky worl.

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, only a ...

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Finding the full set of genetic building blocks - adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil - in this primordial rubble strengthens the idea that the raw ingredients for life were widespread, and ...

Thu, Mar 19, 2026 Scientists examining dust from an asteroid have discovered all the fundamental building blocks required to ...

New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth's climate records and expanding researchers' understanding of how the planet has changed ...

P-wave and S-wave arrivals, the kind of first things you get is extremely quiet for detecting those.” Seismic waves from ...

Project Hail Mary reminds us how important our world is – and how vital science is to our continued existence on it.