Scientists outline the urgency to better identify the significant damage sand extraction across the world heaps upon marine biodiversity.

For the first time, the US military shared an orbital selfie from its mysterious X-37B space plane, which captured Earth from ...

Doggett is part of a working group of Democrats, formed on February 10, which is identifying lesser-known congressional tools to hold the administration to account. They are led in part by Maryland ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ultimately forming protocells—primitive, non-living structures that were ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a northern continent, Laurasia, and a southern continent, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...