Shutting up shop

China begins closing down its legal ivory trade, but will consumer attitudes to prized artwork change?

Success for SpaceX ‘re-usable rocket’

SpaceX flies and lands a Falcon 9 rocket that had already been used on a previous…

Lost in space: ‘Peggy, I don’t have a shield’

Astronauts Peggy Whitson and Shane Kimbrough were meant to be installing debris shields on the ISS.

James Webb telescope: Hubble successor set for yet more tests

The spectacular James Webb Space Telescope is bound next for the giant Apollo testing chamber.

West Mersea mammoth tusk found on beach

Research will be carried out into the age and rarity of the tusk.

Food trade drains global water sources at ‘alarming’ rates

The global food trade is depleting water sources quicker than they can naturally be refilled in…

SpaceX set to launch ‘used rocket’

California's SpaceX company expects to make a piece of history later when it re-flies a Falcon…

Cyclone Debbie: Experts fear damage to Great Barrier Reef

The Australian state of Queensland is assessing the extent of the damage caused by the major…

Elephants in dramatic muddy escape

Eleven Asian elephants manage to drag themselves clear of a muddy hole in Cambodia.

New population of rare tigers found in eastern Thailand

Camera traps caught images of the critically endangered Indochinese tigers in eastern Thailand.