If an advanced civilisation lived on earth millions of years ago, would we be able to tell?

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

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Projecting our consciousness into other bodies and walking on alien worlds might not be such a far-flung concept

Within just a few weeks, I had nearly been wee’d on by a naked mole-rat, waited for five hours for a few horses to poo and smelt the sulphurous pong of some seafloor sludge collected from the depths o

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel

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