Science

For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have cultivated a close relationship with fire. But for all our fascination and

NASA’s Mars Odyssey probe has been orbiting the Red Planet for almost 19 years now, making it the longest continually

We’ve found the fastest known star in the Milky Way. In the extreme environment at the centre of our galaxy,

Something strange has happened in the voice boxes (or larynxes) of primates: these organs have evolved much faster than in

One of the world’s most prominent astronomical observatories has a hole. On Monday, a 3-inch-thick (76-mm-thick) cable at the Arecibo

When NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) arrived in orbit around the Moon in 2009, scientists immediately started firing lasers at

The English town of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the