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A car, a golf ball, a pie... and other items items dispatched on cosmic journeys over the years.

A study modelling how dinosaurs spread worldwide shows they may have been a victim of their own success.

The entrepreneur will attempt to fly the world's most powerful rocket with his own Tesla as payload.

A fossil preserved in amber for 100 million years is shaking up ideas about the evolution of spiders.

Scientists call for monitoring of plastic pollution risks to whales, sharks and rays that strain water to feed.

Latest technology reveals a network of more than 60,000 structures under Guatemala's jungle.

The UK will play a leading role in developing a spacecraft to warn of solar storms.

New analysis suggests part of a nation-changing army of Vikings was buried in a town churchyard.

A leading maker of straws says greener alternatives are too costly and their development has stalled.

The ancient animal would have shared its home with dinosaurs, say Bristol researchers.

The lonely bird died beside a concrete bird replica he had courted - and nested with - for years.

Volcan de Fuego sent ash over a mile into the sky.

Controlling machines using thought can be used in medicine, gaming, transport and many other sectors.

High-tech tracking collars on polar bears reveal a growing Arctic struggle, say scientists.

Tracking collars on female polar bears measure the animals' struggle to find food on diminishing Arctic ice.

Researchers have discovered that salmon from the chalk streams of southern England are genetically unique.

While the US suffers an overdose epidemic, most of the world misses out on painkillers.

It's 15 years since disaster struck as the Columbia returned to Earth following a research mission.

Xavier Bettel is at Cape Canaveral in Florida to see his nation's latest space project go into orbit.

The move by Hong Kong's lawmakers is hailed by campaigners as "a lifeline for elephants".