ANCIENT footprints of people who fled a fiery eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,000 years ago have been unearthed by accident. The markings had been made more than 1,000 years prior to the ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán ...

It’s that time of year again when gardeners start buying plants and planning this year’s flower and vegetable gardens.

Two moon landers — one from Texas and the other from Japan — began their journey to the lunar surface on Wednesday morning. They’ll take different paths to the moon and land in different places. But ...

SpaceX launched not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on the same mission, on the 100th launch from the same pad where ...

Over 200 years ago, the world experienced two years of extremely cold weather, and the Sun took on unusual colours. The ...

WHEN you think of Britain, the first word that springs to mind probably isn’t “volcano” – but our tiny nation is littered ...