SCIENCE

Peake will give his first-hand report about his time on board the International Space Station.

Aerial surveys reveal 93% of kelp canopy north of San Francisco disappeared between 2008 to 2014.

Large-scale motion at fault system predicted by models confirmed through analysis of GPS records.

"He doesn't harm anyone and is in no way a pest – he brightens a lot of people's days," says petition.

Newly discovered exoplanet 500 light years away is just five to ten million years old.

The solar-powered plane is attempting to circle the globe to raise awareness for cleaner technology.

Mining, agriculture, construction of dams are some of the drivers for environmental activists getting killed.

Catastrophic die-off in 2015 saw 200,000 saiga antelopes disappear in Kazakhstan.

It's been 86 years since anyone lived on St Kilda, after the tough way of life had become unsustainable.

The country's usual monsoon period has escalated into a human disaster on the scale of 1998.

After Finding Nemo was released in 2003, nearly 1 million Clownfish were sold in the US alone.

Only 90,000 giraffes still roam the African plains, far fewer than the endangered African elephant, according to Sir David Attenborough.

Buried treasure was discovered by metal detector group Team Rainbow in Vejen, Jutland.

What's next for Major Peake after his out of this world experience?

Tim Peake, Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko return to Earth safely from the ISS.

Peake is the first British European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut to visit the International Space Station.

June's full moon – also called the strawberry moon – will be seen worldwide on same day as summer solstice.

The UK space economy is expected to be worth £40bn by 2030 thanks to lower costs and huge innovation.

In Eritrea, researchers have found 800,000-year-old footprints belonging to modern man's ancestor.

'Megafauna' species in Patagonia such as the giant jaguar became extinct in just a few hundred years.

Johann-Dietrich Woerner has praised Peake after the Briton conducted 250 experiments during time on ISS.

Peake will arrive back on Earth on 18 June after spending 186 days in space.

Crackdown on lions following killings of three villagers in Gujarat.

The summer solstice falls on 20 June 2016, the shortest night of the year.

The photo was taken using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument on the Aqua satellite.

Scientists announce most distant oxygen ever detected from Earth, giving an insight into how universe began.

Oldest Homo erectus fossilised footprints ever found are located in a desert in Africa.

Nasa carried out 'Spacecraft Fire Experiment' on board the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo vehicle.

The tiger was trained with whips up until Animals Defenders International found him after an 8-month search.