BBCListen to this article on BBC SoundsThere are some scientific discoveries that do much more than advance our knowledge: they create a shift in our psyche as they show ...

Rebecca Morelle, Alison Francis and Greg BrosnanBBC ScienceWatch: Astronauts return to Earth after extended stay in SpaceAfter nine months in space, Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have ...

UN planetary defence organisations are closely monitoring an asteroid that has a tiny risk of hitting the Earth.The European Space Agency (ESA) has said that it has an almost ...

Getty ImagesThe meteorite was 40-60km in diameter and left a crater 500km acrossA huge meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history ...

A telescope in Hawaii captured a rare comet as it passes near Earth. The footage was captured on 2 October by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Subaru-Asahi Star ...

Jeff KerbyScientists were able to pin down the location of the tsunami to a remote fjord in East Greenland A massive landslide in a Greenland fjord triggered a wave ...

NASAButch Wilmore and Suni Williams will remain in space until February 2025Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is set to begin its journey back to Earth - but the astronauts it was ...

It sounds too good to be true: a plan to harvest solar energy from space and beam it down to Earth using microwaves.But it's something that could be happening ...

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 ...

A group of scientists say they have found new evidence to back up their theory that complex life on Earth may have begun 1.5 billion years earlier than thought.The ...

Maija KaralaThe small furry Jurassic mammal scampered at the feet of dinosaurs (artist impression)Two incredibly rare fossils found on Scotland's Isle of Skye are rewriting our understanding of how ...