Science

We built clocks around the day and then quietly began treating the day as though it were a…

We’re just a few short days away from the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse, when millions will watch…

Plastic contamination should be a central concern in efforts to deal with food waste, which campaigners call one…

August will bring two opportunities to look skyward as a solar eclipse and the annual Perseid meteor shower…

Today: One minor Harry Potter character actually has two well-known star names: Regulus Arcturus Black, the brother of…

Eight of the biggest oil companies amassed profits of more than $90bn (£67bn) in just three months as…

Elon Musk says Starship Flight 13 recovery ‘not looking good’ despite successful splashdown SpaceX‘s attempt to recover its…

What it’s like to chase solar eclipses around the world BBCSpanish mountain village braces for astrotourists lured by total…

One in five Australian birds and mammals are facing a “high to extreme risk” from the escalating bird…

Nearly 48 years after its launch, NASA engineers have found a way to keep Voyager 2’s mission going…

On the afternoon of 3 June 1977, a young woman lay on a table at Bellevue Hospital in…

Since Homer’s day, the Mediterranean has been much more than a beautiful body of water, where Odysseus journeyed…

For roughly a billion years of Earth’s deep past, the Moon’s ocean tides may have slowed the planet while a Sun-driven atmospheric tide sped it up, holding the day near 19 hours — but the rocks preserve a hypothesis, not a stopwatch