The Natural History Museum’s first permanent gallery in nine years will explore the biggest challenges facing Earth and how ...

The Natural History Museum’s free youth climate programme Fixing Our Broken Planet: Generation Hope is set to return this ...

Children are curious. They ask questions. A few weeks ago a little girl asked me about the “crack” in my chest: the scar from heart valve surgery in 2010. Sometimes it’s difficult to know ...

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For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will be visible at once, with Mercury making a cameo in the planetary parade which is running all this month and next.

"We would have changed the plan had he told us that," he said. "Why would we do what we did, having him throw that broken hand, if we knew he broke his hand? That would be stupid. "I would have ...

A rare six-planet alignment is set to grace our night sky on January 21, 2025. Let's unveil what it means for each zodiac sign. A rare six-planet alignment is set to grace our night sky on January ...

Some of the brightest planets in the night sky are visible right now, with six of them forming a 'planet parade' across the night sky for at least the next month. Just after sunset tonight ...

Such an event is commonly known as a "planet parade," though NASA noted that the moniker is not a technical astronomical term. Here's a list of the planets that will be visible in some for this ...

That means the Sun and the "Red Planet" are directly opposite from each other with Earth in the middle. According to NASA, this is around the time when the planet is closest to Earth, making it ...