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The Roman Colosseum is among the most famous landmarks of Earth. Through the ages, the popular imagination has diminished this amphitheatre's history to the simple, stone-built bowl- an open arena where gladiators would fight as crowds booed.

Beneath forests, grasslands and even the soil in our gardens lies an extraordinary hidden world that most people never see. Scientists have now mapped a vast underground network of microscopic fungi stretching an estimated 110 quadrillion kilometres across Earth's topsoil, a distance so immense that it could reach the Sun nearly a billion times.

As darkness falls across much of the modern world, truly dark landscapes have become increasingly rare. Artificial light now reaches an estimated 23 per cent of the Earth's land surface between 75degN and 60degS, while the extent of illuminated areas continues to expand globally.

Chinese researchers have uncovered what is believed to be Earth's deepest and most extensive whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean, with fossils dating back 5.3 million years and ecosystems that may reshape understanding of deep-sea life.

A supermassive black hole located roughly three billion light-years from Earth is producing the fastest ultraviolet winds ever recorded. The object, known as J2318, powers a quasar whose outflows are travelling at approximately 30 per cent of the speed of light, or around 323 million kilometres per hour.

Scientists suggest Earth's earliest animals reproduced asexually, slowing evolution and delaying the biodiversity boom that transformed life.

A solar eruption that had sparked hopes of Northern Lights sightings in India failed to arrive as expected. Forecasters have now lowered storm expectations, raising questions about whether auroras will be visible at all.

The solid inner core is contained within the liquid outer core, enabling it to rotate differently from the Earth itself

Physicist who designed and developed innovative instruments that provided evidence of changes in the Earth's atmosphere

Seatrec and Bedrock Ocean Exploration are two startups taking electric robots to new depths in an attempt to map the ocean floor.