Zimbabwe is very proud of The Big Tree, the huge baobab tree close to Victoria Falls. While it may not exactly be the tallest tree in the world (‘only’ 24 metres), it is impressively wide in girth (22 ...

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Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.

We never miss a beat, so Feedback, prompted by assistant news editor and Swiftie Alexandra Thompson, has been taking a close look at a major paper in the Annals of Botany, published in August. It is ...

Ben Futa, owner of The Botany Shop in South Bend, Indiana, has realized his childhood dream of working with plants. Futa, who has a background in horticulture and public gardens, aims to cultivate a ...

This mosaic is made up of more than 100 images captured by NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter, which operated around Mars from 1976 to 1980. The scar across the center of the planet is the vast Valles Marineris ...

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