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Tim PeakePhoto credit: Esa.int ESA astronaut Tim Peake took 2kg of rocket seeds to the International Space Station…

It is a perfect autumn day for a clifftop walk: sea and sky blend into a veil of…

Armed guards on some of Britain’s nuclear waste shipments could be removed under new proposals designed to save…

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The Draconid meteor shower will peak overnight on Oct. 8-9, 2026. Skywatchers can look forward to excellent viewing…

Bags of waste and an abandoned suitcase were discovered on a public footpath near communal bins on Booth…

The engineering development unit for NASA’s DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) probe…

“My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we…

A British-constructed Mars rover is poised to become the first spacecraft to bore two metres beneath the Martian…

Bangkok is used to absorbing the sudden afternoon downpours that inundate the city during the rainy season. Even…

When NASA’s Mars Phoenix mission successfully sampled ice from the Martian arctic regions, it made astrobiological history. This…

In 2015, 2kg of rocket seeds went to the space station; after their return, 600,000 UK children helped test them, and researchers found they grew more slowly but remained viable