SCIENCE

The pair are one third of the way through a record breaking year-long space mission.

Raphium pectinatum was last seen 150 years ago in Surrey

US military test a laser gun that emits a plasma with a sound equivalent to the roar of a fighter jet.

Reunion's Piton de la Fournaise volcano has been erupting since February.

Direction particle spins as it decays suggests universe is a leftie.

Greenpeace protesters dangling from a bridge in Portland, failed to prevent the Fennica from passing through to the Arctic.

Philae sniffed life forming organic compounds on Chury.

Baby two-toed sloth being hand reared at ZSL London Zoo after mother stopped producing milk.

Simon Dominguez was forced to abandon his record bid to swim from San Francisco to the Farallon Islands.

200,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Obama administration to extradite Palmer to Zimbabwe.

Ocean acts as a major carbon sink, sucking up CO2 and preventing greater climate change.

Robots that can launch from the surface of water could be used in future surveillance missions.

The rare occurrence happens roughly once every three years.

In total, there are 32 stunning entrants who have been picked as the favourites.

Golden jackals from East Africa and Eurasia are two different species, scientists discover.

'It's a story of how medicine changed the course of civilization'

Panspermia is the theory that life crosses the universe and ends up on a planet.

Unexplained reddish arc-shaped streaks spotted on Tethys by Cassini-Huygens probe.

The melting of a giant prehistoric ice sheet is causing the land to sink.

Shawyer describes using EmDrive to power the X-37B space plane and to create affordable flying cars.

The team believe that stellar objects such as this can produce much greater lights

First observed in the 70s, there are almost 4,000 sinkholes along the shores of the salty sea today.

Big game hunting is a multi-million dollar industry across Africa.

Yuan Yuan showed the typical symptoms that pandas usually experiences

Voyager's Golden Record greeting for aliens has been released on SoundCloud.

Dr Martin Tajmar says "Our test campaign cannot confirm or refute the claims of the EmDrive."

A dense layer of ivy covers the houses in the abandoned fishing village on a Chinese island.

Chimpanzees in Budongo forest are eating and drinking from clay pits.

Only one male of the species still remains, but he is too old to reproduce.