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It's not clear why the two pods got washed up on the beach but it was not possible to save them.

The InSight mission is about to make the hair-raising descent to the surface of the Red Planet.

A new exhibition highlights the work of the 2018 Nature’s Best Photography award winners.

Tossing the carcasses of dead salmon on to a river bank over two decades has boosted tree growth, a study finds.

Nasa's latest probe is carrying super-sensitive UK seismometers to the Red Planet.

Nasa's Mars InSight lander is due to arrive on the Red Planet's surface on Monday night. It will study the planet's interior so we can learn more about how it formed.

The rate of deforestation has risen 13.7% in a year, amid concern about the new president's policies.

Climate change could cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars and damage health, a major report warns.

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst captures the launch of the Russian Progress MS-10 cargo spacecraft.

Sydney Harbour and the Egyptian pyramids feature in debut images from the first all-UK radar spacecraft.

MIT scientists create the first plane to fly without moving parts.

Two replicas, based on gold and silver fragments found in the Staffordshire hoard, go on show.

A new unit at a Serbian coal-fired power station focuses concerns on China's role in global warming.

New research disputes a theory that early humans helped wipe out many large mammals that once roamed Africa.

Self-styled 'Resource Goddess' Cat Fletcher is paid to comb abandoned office buildings for items that can be re-used rather than discarded.

The ritual burial could be linked to a huge previously undiscovered Iron Age settlement.

The gases that are driving up temperatures reached a new high in 2017 with no sign of a reversal in the trend.

Solar activity is now believed to have caused explosions during the Vietnam War. Our reliance on technology means the next event could have far more serious effects.

The Prince of Wales is set to address a summit on dealing with waste.

The American space agency says its InSight Mars lander is on a near-perfect Thanksgiving trajectory.