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Space

Mars rocks may have drunk up all the water and doomed life there

We used to think Mars lost most of its water to space when its atmosphere blew away. Instead, the water may have been sucked up by rocks that sunk underground

News

Starry Night painting

Technology

New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour

Features

Danakil depression

Earth

Scorching hot springs house extreme life and a future ocean

Regulars

Dan McKenzie

Earth

Dan McKenzie: The man who made Earth move

Features

Enceladus’s hot, gritty core may cook up ingredients for life

Space

Enceladus’s hot, gritty core may cook up ingredients for life

News

The latest science reads remind us why we really do need experts

Earth

The latest science reads remind us why we really do need experts

Culture

eruption

Earth

Cataclysms: A life spent chasing planetary catastrophe

Culture

The dwarf planet Eris

Space

Volcanoes that spew stretchy ice could make dwarf planets bright

News

globe

Earth

The next supercontinent: Four ways Earth could reshape itself

Features

People run in the streets after a powerful earthquake jolted Mexico City on 19 September

Earth

Mexico City quake: A few seconds' warning can still save lives

The recent earthquake in Mexico City shows even the best tremor alarms sometimes only go off seconds before – but clever planning can mean those few seconds save many people

Analysis

Earth

Huge space rocks could have helped start Earth’s plate tectonics

News

Earth

There is no way to spot big earthquakes ahead of time

News

Earth

Could we store carbon dioxide as liquid lakes under the sea?

News

Earth

Fear and trembling, from The Great Quake to Quakeland

Culture