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Gerald Rhemann A rare photograph of a comet that will never be seen from Earth again has won a prestigious photography prize.The image shows a piece of Comet Leonard's tail breaking off and being carried away by the solar wind.The comet made a brief ...

PaleozooResearchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart preserved inside a fossilised prehistoric fish. They say the specimen captures a key moment in the evolution of the blood-pumping organ found in all back-boned animals, including humans...

A fireball seen shooting through the skies from Scotland and Northern Ireland was likely to have been space junk, experts have said. Hundreds of people reported seeing the "shooting star" across the UK skies at around 22:00 on Wednesday evening. Scie...

Philip SilvermanSwitching from fossil fuels to renewable energy could save the world as much as $12tn (£10.2tn) by 2050, an Oxford University study says.The report said it was wrong and pessimistic to claim that moving quickly towards cleaner energy ...

The New Shepard rocket and capsule system developed by US billionaire Jeff Bezos has had to abort a mission mid-flight over the Texas desert. The rocket experienced what appeared to be a propulsion failure about one minute after leaving the launch pa...

PA Archive Will King Charles III turn his back on a lifetime of environmental campaigning? As Prince of Wales he spent decades campaigning, cajoling, and convening meetings to drive action on environmental issues. As king he is subject to different r...

The New Shepard rocket and capsule system developed by US billionaire Jeff Bezos has had to abort a mission mid-flight over the Texas desert. The rocket experienced what appeared to be a propulsion failure about one minute after leaving the launch pa...

Andre Seale via Getty ImagesCurrent rates of warming will put the Earth at risk of crossing six "dangerous" climate tipping points, according to a new analysis.Crossing these thresholds would disrupt the Earth's systems triggering the collapse of ice...

Getty ImagesThis summer was the hottest on record in Europe, according to data from EU satellite monitoring. A series of extreme heatwaves and a long running drought saw June, July and August shatter the previous high mark for temperature.The Coperni...

Getty ImagesThe government plans to move nuclear and renewable electricity generators to lower price contracts to cut bills, Prime Minister Liz Truss has said."Renewable and nuclear generators will move on to contracts for difference, to end the situ...

A Soldati Wild chimpanzees have their own "signature drumming style" according to scientists. Researchers who followed and studied chimps in the Ugandan rainforest found that the animals drum out messages to one another on tree roots. The scientists ...

Tim MaloneyThe earliest evidence ever of surgical amputation has been discovered in an Indonesian cave.Researchers found the buried 31,000-year-old body of a young person that shows evidence of leg amputation.The find pushes back the origin of this c...

ReutersDuring the leadership campaign, new PM Liz Truss promised to "double down" on the UK's commitment to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.But as summer temperatures soared, there was little talk of greater ambition from the Tory con...

Science Photo LibraryPollution warnings are in place for more than 100 British beaches after untreated sewage was discharged into the sea.The warnings appear on the Safer Seas and Rivers Service, run by the charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), and a...

Justin HofmanHigh-speed drones whizz along an avalanche's deadly wall of tumbling snow, rare Siberian tigers hunt hibernating prey, and microscopes capture ice breaking. More than a decade on from the first series, Frozen Planet II returns, using new...

C.HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH/EPA The launch of Nasa's new Artemis I Moon rocket is facing a potentially lengthy delay after a second postponement. Controllers tried and failed again on Saturday to get the Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle to lift off. They ...

The US space agency has had to postpone the launch of its new Artemis I Moon rocket for the second time in a week. Controllers were unable to stop a hydrogen leak on the vehicle, almost from the start of Saturday's countdown procedure. Nasa now has a...

The US space agency will attempt once again in the coming hours to launch its most powerful ever rocket. Nasa was thwarted by a mix of technical and weather woes when it tried to get the Artemis I Moon mission off Earth on Monday. But the mood remain...

Farms, pubs, and village halls across England will be able to bid for a share of up to £110m funding as part of a new scheme to boost the rural economy.The rural England prosperity fund has been created as a "top-up" for councils to deliver as part o...

Getty ImagesThe devastating floods in Pakistan are a "wake-up call" to the world on the threats of climate change, experts have said. The record-breaking rain would devastate any country, not just poorer nations, one climate scientist has told BBC Ne...

Getty ImagesEngland has had its joint hottest summer on record, the Met Office says. Provisional figures show the summer of 2022 - covering June, July and August - had an average temperature of 17.1C.This year's summer tied with 2018 for the warmest,...

Christian ZieglerA tender moment or something more sinister? The image appears to show a bonobo cuddling a little mongoose like a treasured pet. But instead, maybe the ape took the mongoose pup for dinner after killing its mother.But that would be un...

New restrictions on travellers bringing pork products into Great Britain have been put in place to protect the pig industry from African Swine Fever.The move comes as the highly-contagious disease spreads in mainland Europe, with thousands of pigs an...

Andrey Atuchin / Virginia TechScientists have unearthed in Zimbabwe the remains of Africa's oldest dinosaur, which lived than 230 million years ago. The Mbiresaurus raathi was one metre tall, ran on two legs and had a long neck and jagged teeth. Scie...