Kathleen Kennedy said when she was 6, her dad learned a dead whale washed ashore. He used a chainsaw to cut off and retrieve ...

Astronomers on Maunakea on Hawai‘i Island have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million ...

The Earth is getting a second 'mini-moon' later this month, but it'll only last from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, researchers say.

Traditionally, eclipse maps have been constructed from the assumption that the Moon is a perfect sphere and that all ...

An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as ...

A researcher has figured out that the Earth’s first continent was formed 3bn years ago, in a new paper that sheds fresh light on ... Meanwhile, in Greaves' sample, the first continents appeared 2bn ...

China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to accelerate its progress ...

Hot Water Comedy is set to showcase talented female comedians in a new weekly club night at its Blackstock Market home.

“Too much of the world, it seems, has come under human influence during a time when we’re not very good at working out how to ...

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

Our Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and, through careful work, scientists have pieced together a timeline of its past.

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...