Imogen FoulkesKim Mishra (L) and Anian Schreiber (R) cooperated on the new chocolate making process Imagine picking up a nice juicy apple - but instead of biting into it...

Nasa has selected Elon Musk's SpaceX company to bring down the International Space Station at the end of its life.The California-based company will build a vehicle capable of pushing...

A never-seen-before space image of the interior structure of a storm cloud has been released by the European and Japanese space agencies.Their Earthcare satellite used a Doppler radar to...

Ove Hoegh-GuldbergThere have been five mass coral-bleaching events at the Great Barrier Reef over the past nine years A study of samples taken from inside the bodies of centuries-old...

Scientists have discovered a reservoir of liquid water on Mars - deep in the rocky outer crust of the planet.The findings come from a new analysis of data from...

ISROIndia's lunar mission found remnants of a magma ocean on the south poleThe Moon’s south pole was once covered in an ocean of liquid molten rock, according to scientists.The...

Moment rocket engine explodes during launch test in ShetlandA rocket engine has exploded during a launch test at the UK's new spaceport in Shetland.The test was being carried out...

BBCSwarms of as many as 30 large twin-engine drones will patrol the skies for potential wildfires, researchers hopeDrones could soon be working together in swarms to put out flames...

Getty ImagesSir Brian May says speaking out against badger culling is "as important to me as music"Queen guitarist Sir Brian May says new research shows cattle could be passing...

Dawn Pummintr/BBCStonehenge now has stones from all over Great BritainThe six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from the far north of Scotland rather than south-west Wales...

BBC"We were just out looking to see what we could find, we didn't think we'd find anything," says Tegan, on the beach where the discovery was madeWhen 10-year-old Tegan...

UCLA cluster of Scottish islands could help solve one of our planet's greatest mysteries, scientists say.The Garvellach islands off the west coast of Scotland are the best record of...