Dinosaur tracks on Skye ‘globally important’

Researchers find that the footprints belonged to sauropods and therapods from the Middle Jurassic period.

Tiangong-1: Defunct China space lab comes down over South Pacific

China's defunct Tiangong-1 space lab mostly burnt up on re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.

Space junk demo mission launches

A UK-led project heads to orbit to trial technologies for removing redundant space hardware.

Dumping pesticides, using ducks instead

Bernard Poujol believes ducks are the future for rice farms, but he hasn't quite perfected his…

RAF looks to space for the future

The Royal Air Force pushing boundaries, 100 years since it began. Three women serving with the…

Rhino census in India’s Kaziranga park counts 12 more

A census suggests that one-horn rhino numbers have increased by 12 to 2,413 in the national…

Prof Stephen Hawking funeral: Legacy ‘will live forever’

Tributes led by actor Eddie Redmayne are paid at the funeral of the visionary scientist in…

Tesla in fatal California crash was on Autopilot

The company says a Model X vehicle involved in a fatal crash in the US was…

Vanishing lake

It's been shrinking fast, but could a plan to divert water to one of Africa's largest…

Shipping faces demands to cut CO2

The industry could contribute almost a fifth of the global total of CO2 by 2050 but…