The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

To truly understand our place in the universe, we must first comprehend the concept of scale. It is only through understanding the relative sizes of the entities around us that we can appreciate the ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th. SOHO's venerable LASCO C3 imager caught the comet near the Sun, as it topped ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...

Located atop the Corcovado Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Christ the Redeemer’s iconic status ranks as one of the ...

It orbits a G-type star, like the Sun, at a distance of just 19.7 light-years, which is, on the scale of the Universe, in the very close neighbourhood of the Earth. This ''closeness'' makes it ...

There is no dearth of vastness, secrets and rumours around the universe, that is the disc shaped or torus shaped cosmos.

By employing a new and improved supercollider, scientists are hoping to dissect the very fabric of the Universe and calculate ...