For years, astronomers have celebrated every hint of an ocean on a distant world as a potential foothold for life. Now a new wave of modeling argues that most of those supposed seas are illusions, and ...

A 177-year-old glass and wrought-iron Palm House is the centrepiece of London’s Kew Gardens, where feature writer Ian Brown paid a visit for a story about a massive renovation under way.

A Sun-type star situated nearly 3,000 light-years from Earth has provided astronomers with a unique opportunity to observe an ...