The International Mother Earth Day was celebrated on April 22. It was proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United ...

Researchers came to the conclusion that super-Earths can exist as far from their host star as our gas giants are from the sun ...

Last week I wrote about my adrenaline-fueled experience at Crossword Con on Friday, April 4. After discussing today’s puzzle, ...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known ...

Scientists have found a nearby planet that appears to be teeming with life, and now we may know what it looks like. The ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

One billionaire wants to move industry off-world, returning Earth to a pristine state. The other wants to colonise Mars.

Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth, I was struggling to climb a near vertical cliff on the ...

To optimists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report was a relief: 2030 still seemed enough time for humanity ...

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Doctor Who does not often traffic in horror, but when it does it is memorable. "The Well" does so to perfection, and harkens ...

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