Which ocean has the maximum number of islands in the world? Explore why the Pacific Ocean holds this record, along with its ...

How small our leaders are, how petty and parochial. For all Sir Keir Starmer’s bluster about national resilience, he is ...

A team of geologists found for the first time evidence linking regions of low seismic velocity and the shape of the Earth’s magnetic field.

The North American craton actually dips near the Rockies rather than forming a sharp vertical step as previously believed.

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming stars at an intense rate from collapsing clouds of dust. Reported in ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Parts of ancient Earth may have formed continents and recycled crust through subduction far earlier than previously thought.

Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet ...

The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

Coral reefs may look similar at first glance, but their shapes, locations and structures reveal how they form – and how ...