How the world’s deepest hole was dug

Take a deep dive into some of the world’s most curious submerged sites

Ten years ago, Pluto emerged from the gloom at the Solar System’s ragged edge – and a new world came in from the cold. Five billion kilometres (3 billion miles) from Earth, on 14 July 2015, NASA’s pia

Explore the secret landscape concealed by the ice of this Arctic island nation

The discovery of buried ‘mud waves’ off the ...

The best discoveries, inventions and surprises

Scientists distinguish between weight and mass, which may seem pedantic until you see what happens on a world where gravity is radically different to Earth’s