Alastair Bonnett's forthcoming book New Ruins looks at how the debris of our disposable culture is changing the world. In this extract, he focuses on space junk ...

Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's epic transforms mythology into a poignant meditation on war, trauma, memory and the ...

In the first part of this series, she weighs up the idea that the Earth could really be flat… In 1838, Samuel Rowbotham, an English inventor and flat-Earth proponent, conducted a bizarre experiment on ...

At a place called Silfra, you can snorkel or scuba dive through a natural crack or fissure between two of Earth’s tectonic plates. It’s said to be the only place on the planet where this is possible.

Located almost entirely in the Sahara, Mauritania is home to centuries-old cities, desert oases and a coastal spectacle so ...

KS1 Science / Geography. This short video for primary age children explores the relationship of the Earth to the sun, the cause of the seasons. Suitable for teaching science and geography at KS1 and ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like the ...

The US-Iran conflict escalates as attacks intensify, oil prices surge, and the Strait of Hormuz crisis raises fears of a ...

Neither wishful multilateralism nor cold realpolitik will do. Mark Carney and Alexander Stubb suggest a third way ...

In South Dakota’s Great Plains, Indigenous legends and gold-rush lore are set against a backdrop of colossal landscapes ...

A canyon road in Southwest China’s Chongqing — that’s all it took to stop millions of people mid-scroll. What pushed it into ...

One aspect of the greening of Sudbury is how the transformation story played out in the wider world. How did the view of ...