And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. With this exhilarating knowledge we had slept, or tried to, for five or six hours, wrapped in oversized ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

Astronaut Kjell Lindgren spent close to five months on the International Space Station last year serving as a NASA flight engineer and mission specialist. He still remembers the first time he saw ...

That beyond the horizon lurked a bottomless void, measureless to humans ... horizon began returning triumphant from the other. The Earth was curved, a sphere with no edges. We didn't fall off ...

Many scientists say they can explain how the Earth was formed without any need for a god. They say everything began with the Big Bang when the universe exploded outwards from a single tiny point.

This proposes that the Moon formed during a collision between the Earth and another small planet, about the size of the planet Mars. The debris from this impact collected in an orbit around Earth to ...

Nuclear reactions at the core of the Sun create energy in the form of heat and ... for its light to reach us on Earth. The Earth as we know it, could not exist without the Sun's light, every ...

Cambridge University Press publishes across the full spectrum of sub-disciplines that comprise the Earth and Environmental Sciences – everything from soil science to space physics and from ...

Researchers spotted a second distant star orbiting a well-known black hole and its stellar companion in a never-before-seen ...