+ There are day trips from Cape Town to Stellenbosch and Franschhoek winemaking regions and the Western Cape is on the end of ...

In 1965, Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote a song that reached number seven on the US Hot 100 (reaching number one in Canada ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

ESA has announced an official agreement to maintain this access to Guiana Space Centre (CSG) for the next decade, to 2035.

Almost two-thirds of the world's population is affected by the monsoon—the annual arrival of intense rains in areas north and ...

Chinese radar detects an ionospheric "plasma bubbles" over Egypt from Hainan, revealing key advances in global monitoring of ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built ...

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

Earth is spinning faster, making July 9, 2025, one of the shortest day since 1960 by 1.3 to 1.6 milliseconds, primarily due to the Moon's alignment. While imperceptible in daily life, this speedup may ...

The antenna for the GOES-East weather satellite is nothing if not huge, as it communicates with a satellite close to 23,500 ...