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Earth's interior stores an immense reservoir of heat, yet only a handful of countries have managed to turn that energy into a major source of electricity. The reason has never been a shortage of heat beneath the ground.

At first glance, Neptune seems like the last place where violent weather should thrive. The ice giant circles the Sun at an average distance of about 4.5 billion kilometres, leaving it in a region where daylight is remarkably faint.

When planning to shift to the Moon, where would humans live? Prior to the move, one would have to carry all the cement, water and building materials from Earth and build homes first.

Deep beneath the Pilbara region of Western Australia lies some of the oldest and best preserved crust anywhere on the planet, and it has just revealed something unexpected about Earth's earliest history. Volcanic rocks dating back 3.1 billion years show chemical signs that surface water had already travelled deep into the planet's interior at that time, helping generate magma long before modern plate tectonics existed in its familiar form.

At first glance, Titan, Saturn's largest moon, looks remarkably like Earth. Its surface is covered by winding rivers, dotted with vast lakes and seas, covered by towering mountains and wrapped in thick clouds that produce seasonal rain.

Over the next several hundred million years, Earth could face numerous unexpected consequences, all due to the distance slowly yet steadily developing between the planet and its only moon. In what is coming to be defined as one of the most precisely known physical quantities in all of contemporary planetary science, the Moon is moving away from Earth at the speed of 3.83 centimetres annually, with a formal uncertainty of approximately 0.09 millimetres.

A huge fossilised skeleton weighing 1,300 kilograms (2,865 pounds) that was found in southern Poland is currently being chipped out of solid rock by a group of more than 2,000 public volunteers.

In a dry, remote stretch of central Queensland, tiny springs bubble up from deep underground to form shallow, ankle-deep pools in the middle of the desert. Living only in these springs is a fish so small it barely reaches the size of a thumbnail, called the red-finned blue-eye.

Saturn's largest moon often draws comparisons with Earth because it has rivers, lakes, clouds and even rainfall. Yet almost everything familiar behaves differently there.

The ocean currently absorbs about one-quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities each year, making it one of Earth's most important natural buffers against climate change. Now, scientists and engineers believe they can enhance this natural process.