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By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 7, 2026

An MP has called on ministers to change export controls so that significant fossils can be classed as national treasures

Explanation: Known for its bright and fast meteors, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower comes to planet Earth’s skies from a

Crawling through a narrow passage in a cave beneath a boreal forest near Fort Smith in Canada’s Northwest Territories in

The Sun, Moon, and Earth align on August 12, 2026, to produce a total solar eclipse. When this celestial event

My grandfather Glyn Morton, who has died aged 86, was an environmental microbiologist based for most of his career at

Explanation: Which of these is not a comet? You guessed it – the one on the right is a globular

The Trump administration is waging an unprecedented war on institutions devoted to research and higher learning. While plenty of countries

Explanation: What does the new sharpest image of our Sun show? Instability. To be clear, a certain kind of interactive process

‘Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions,” Charles Darwin once wrote, and he wasn’t wrong. Though