All societies have had ways of understanding nature based on their experiences of it. For example, farmers need to understand the seasons and weather to know when to plant and harvest their crops.

There are many home-grown problems on Earth, but there's still time to worry about bad things arriving from above. The most recent is the asteroid 2024 YR4, which could be a "city killer" if it hits a ...

Venus, our planet of wealth and worth, will be double dipping and twice shining this week as it moonlights and daybreaks as both the morning and evening star.

In the chaotic aftermath of Mongol expansion in the mid-13th century which had left the Abbasid capital of Baghdad in ruin, a new centre of learning soon came to the forefront. Ironically it was the ...