SpaceX’s Starship rocket lands but then explodes
The SpaceX company has managed to land one of its Starship prototypes at the end…
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CaSSIS mission: The camera capturing Mars’ craters and canyons
It is a busy time for Mars at the moment. This month the Red Planet…
Solar Orbiter: Europe’s Sun mission makes first close pass
Europe’s Solar Orbiter (SolO) probe makes its first close pass of the Sun on Monday,…
NASA’s Trip To Mars Begins In California “Clean Room”
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will head off for the Red Planet next year. But like…
Climate change: Greta Thunberg calls out the ‘haters’
“The haters are as active as ever”, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist posted on social…
Euclid space telescope to study ‘dark Universe’ makes progress
Europe’s space mission to uncover the secrets of the “dark Universe” has reached a key…
World’s biggest amphibian ‘discovered’ in museum
Reaching nearly two metres in length, the South China giant salamander is critically endangered in…
Stranded whales: Numbers on the rise around UK shores
The number of whales and dolphins washing up around the UK coastline has risen, according…
‘Rosalind Franklin’ Mars rover assembly completed
Engineers at Airbus in Stevenage, UK, displayed the finished vehicle on Tuesday ahead of its…
The Amazon in Brazil is on fire – how bad is it?
Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil – the most intense blazes…
Fracking: UK shale reserves may be smaller than previously estimated
Previous projections of the potential amount of shale gas under the UK may have been…
Nasa confirms ocean moon mission
The Europa Clipper mission will target the ice-encrusted moon of Jupiter, which is considered a…
Chandrayaan 2 launch called off
Chandrayaan 2 is India’s most ambitious foray into deep space which was originally scheduled for…
A68: World’s biggest iceberg is on the move
It’s two years since the monster block of ice known as A68 broke free from…
Earliest modern human found outside Africa
Researchers have found the earliest example of our species (modern humans) outside Africa. A skull…
Total solar eclipse 2019: South America awaits sky show
Skywatchers in parts of Chile and Argentina will see the Moon pass directly in front…
‘Cryoegg’ to explore under Greenland Ice Sheet
The instruments are designed to give researchers unique information on the way glaciers slide towards…
Bermuda land snail: An animal ‘back from the dead’
The greater Bermuda land snail was thought to have disappeared for many years until an…
Climate change: UK government to commit to 2050 target
Greenhouse gas emissions in the UK will be cut to almost zero by 2050, under…
Antarctic glaciers to honour ‘satellite heroes’
A series of glaciers in the Antarctic are being named after the satellites that have…
Rain or shine: Watching the weather for 250 years
Come rain or shine, come howling gale or thick fog – Oxford doctoral student Emma…