Earth

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees believes that planets resembling Earth may be discovered in the next two to three years – although it may take a further...

A proposal to design a spacecraft that would seek out habitable planets beyond our own solar system could become reality after receiving support from...

Visitors to this year's Royal Society Summer Exhibition will have a chance to discover how scientists from the University of Cambridge are studying...

Paul Murdin from the Institute of Astronomy put a human face to the names behind some of the greatest discoveries to have taken place in our efforts...

The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of species on Earth, was caused by an asteroid colliding...

The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.

Cambridge scientists are helping to improve the chances of success of oil exploration in some of the Earth’s most hostile frontiers.

Chinese, Indian, American and British scientists have released a conference declaration urging a region-by-region response to increased water...