Although it’s by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet

WITH BACKCOUNTRY CAMPING, RIVER SWIMS AND ENDLESS SOLITUDE, THE MULTI-DAY ESCALANTE HIKING ROUTE OFFERS DEEP INSIGHT INTO THE GRAND CANYON

The year 2025 has been a vintage one for astronomy. In January, we were hooked on reports of a building-sized asteroid on course to collide with Earth. The risk was quickly downgraded from worrying to

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Astronomers are now regularly detecting planets thousands of light years from Earth – but have we missed one in our own Solar System?

Within the border between 700km Mare Tranquillitatis and 550km Mare Fecunditatis, lies a young, 56km-wide crater called Taruntius. Positioned just 5.5° north of the Moon’s equator and well away from t