“Mare’s tails and mackerel scales make lofty ships to carry low sails,” runs an old English saying about summer skies.Mackerel skies are cirrocumulus or...
The search for life outside our solar system has taken another twist as researchers revealed they have discovered an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet...
Moments after devouring the final glimmers of light, the seafloor offered nothing but darkness and silt. Then the bow appeared.More than 1,000ft (305 metres)...
Nasa astronaut Sally Ride in her sleep restraint during the STS-7 mission on the space shuttle Challenger, June 1983. Photograph: Space Frontiers/Getty ImagesLong-term space...
Revered as one of Australia’s last true wilderness areas, Takayna/Tarkine is a place of legends. Freshwater crayfish that can reach almost a metre in...
The world is unwittingly walking into a male reproductive crisis, scientists warned this week as they presented data that revealed an apparent halving of...