Cigarette butts in soil hamper plant growth, study suggests

A study suggests the butts make up the most pervasive form of plastic pollution on the…

Hawaii declares state of emergency amid protests over huge telescope

The planned construction of an enormous telescope atop Mauna Kea is being blocked by Hawaiian protesters…

How A 10-Year-Old-Boy Helped Apollo 11 Return To Earth

Greg Force was just a boy when his father, the director of a NASA tracking station…

Key Moments To The Lead Up Of Apollo 11 Moon Landing

NPR’s Noel King talks to historian Andrew Chaikin about the things that went wrong during the…

Prospecting the Moon

A European drill and sample analysis package will search for water ice and other chemicals under…

Research in space for all: foams

Foams are ubiquitous in our daily lives: they are used to produce food, detergents and plastics.…

A beautiful whorl

Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes. One of the key galaxy types we see in the Universe…

Earth from space: Palm oil plantations, Borneo

In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over palm…

Palm oil plantations

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over palm oil plantations in East Kalimantan – the Indonesian…

Bioluminescent plankton hunters capture 'magical' glow

Photographers and nature lovers capture the natural phenomenon that lights up the sea. Click…