The Commons votes in favour of controversial plans for a third runway by 415 votes to…
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RemoveDebris: Mission to clear a huge mess above Earth
The moment the biggest satellite ever released from the space station was set free.
Plastic garbage patch: Medical tests ‘inspired me to investigate’
Sailor Emily Penn sets out to gather scientific data on the world's largest accumulation of marine…
Meet the ‘forgotten’ Victorian astronomer Annie Maunder
A state-of-the-art telescope is named after Annie Maunder, a Victorian pioneer of space photography.
Wildfire spreads across Northern California
Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes as firefighters battle the blazes.
Bird family tree shaken by discovery of feathered fossil
A beautifully preserved fossil bird from 52 million years ago is shaking up the family tree…
UK’s forgotten woman astronomer honoured
The Royal Observatory Greenwich is to start serious study of the sky again with a facility…
Marine plastic: Hundreds of fragments found in dead seabirds
Flesh-footed shearwater chicks are starving to death, because their stomachs are full of plastic, BBC documentary…
The birds filling up with plastic
On a remote island in the Tasman Sea scientists are battling to save flesh-footed Shearwater chicks.
Why does India’s air look different from space?
Europe's Sentinel-5P satellite tracks formaldehyde emissions in the air over the Indian sub-continent.