SCIENCE

Despite being heavily funded Nasa's near-earth object tracking programme was pulled up for not classifying 90 percent of potentially dangerous asteroids.

Increasingly concentrated urban populations in areas prone to hazards is one cause.

'Hazardous eruption' expected at Philippines' most active volcano within next few weeks.

Based on a study of zircon crystals formed 4 billion years ago and more recently, geologists conclude that early Earth was not that hot after all.

The IPHAS data has placed around 219 million stars it spotted during the last ten years using the land-based Newton telescope.

University of Leicester researchers reveal King Richard III's cause of death at Battle of Bosworth

Companies win lucrative contracts to provide NASA with space transport system

Meteorite that ended the dinosaurs shaped our landscape and gave us the forests we have today.

Ancient Mexican civilisation made a boozy drink from milk for essential nutrients.

Scientists have found evidence of a prehistoric, tropical rainforest located in Doncaster.

Report shows distortions and bias in proposed textbooks to be approved in Texas in November

Archaeologists have identified a five-thousand-year-old monument at an early Bronze-Age site in Israel

Scientists will now be able to develop new breeds with desired traits.

Mayon volcano could erupt within weeks says Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology

Japan Meteorological Agency says no tsunami warning after earthquake.

Studying a piece of the Nakhla meteorite from Mars, scientists conclude that water and life could be present beneath the surface of the planet.

Studies with mice engineered with a human brain gene show that they were endowed with unconscious learning as in humans.

Attempts to reduce CFCs have actually contributed to global greenhouse gas levels, a factor in climate change.

Earthquakes above Magnitude 9 are 'possible in subduction zones along the Ring of Fire'.

Expert says cold winters that follow eruption could have sparked myth of Ragnarok.

An expedition has begun to find missing parts of the world's oldest known computer

Japan's whaling operation leads agenda at IWC meeting.

Boston Children's Hospital researchers say teenagers who smoke cannabis use drug to manage low moods.

Hurricane Odile hits holiday resort of Los Cabos in western Mexico.

Scientists warn most glaciers on land will melt rapidly in 200 years.

European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has a landing site on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Typhoon Kalmaegi hits north-eastern Philippines with 100mph blasts of wind

Virgin Galactic commercial space flights scheduled for this year have been pushed back to March 2015.

Nasa scientists simulate distant planets' atmospheres to find environments best suited to alien life.