GLOBAL EYE

Fossilised dinosaur prints, volcanic craters, ice-carved corries – there are places in Britain where the landscape is a portal to the past. Hanna Lindon takes a stroll through 4 billion years of British history

An aerial view of the Nile River, Red ...

One of the most important features of extrasolar planets is whether they have an atmosphere or not. For astrobiology in particular, small, rocky planets blanketed with an atmosphere offer the best hop

Might our universe – as vast as it is – be simply one of many? We look at the growing evidence that there’s more than one cosmos out there

While our planet only has one easily visible Moon, several other tiny objects arguably deserve the title too