SCIENCE

In the early Viking Age, modern notions of nationalism and ethnicity would have been unrecognisable.

According to the space agency, integration of various elements of Webb's spacecraft is taking longer than expected.

The orbit of the comet indicates it originates from a distant and frigid part of the galaxy called the Oort Cloud.

The US territory of 3.4 million people has struggled through nine days with virtually no electricity and shortages of fuel and clean water in the wake of the most powerful storm to hit the island in nearly 90 years.

The settlement is thought to have changed hands numerous times in its history.

New research adds weight to the belief that modern humans evolved much earlier than commonly thought.

Researchers describe the event as the biggest, unplanned, natural experiment in marine biology history.

Vanuatu, home to about 260,000 people, is made up of about 65 islands on the geologically active Pacific Ring of Fire.

The skyscraper-sized formations are made entirely of methane, says Nasa.

Excavation of a burial site in Jerusalem also yielded exotic myrtle and date pollen.

The US space agency said it wanted to expand human presence into the solar system.

Discovery is the first simultaneous observation from detectors on two different continents.

Researchers think they have identified the evolutionary process behind this transformation.

The nebula is a huge cloud of interstellar dust located 5,000 light years from Earth.

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Along with white, bull and whaler sharks, a Bryde's whale was seen hunting bait fish very close to shore.

The elusive species was identified after years of searching.

Anticipated new series will debut on BBC One later this year.

Nasa's Osiris-Rex spacecraft, on its way to the asteroid Bennu, flew past the Earth and took a picture from 170,000km away.

Archaeologists estimate that the Viking boat was around four metres long and may have contained a possible human skeleton.

Archaeologists found the remains of nine men, all between the ages of 25 and 30, who were sacrificed as part of a Sican ritual.

The video comes ahead of Musk's presentation on the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System at the IAC conference on Friday.

Harnessing the power of evaporation could provide as much as 70% of the energy the US is currently producing.

The spiders have a smiley-face pattern on their abdomens and are found across the Caribbean region.

Planetary gravity maps developed by Nasa can be used to find the density of any rocky planet.

Bali is being shaken daily by hundreds of tremors from the mountain, which volcanologists say indicates a high chance of an eruption.

The new iceberg is believed to be unstable and has already broken into smaller chunks as it drifts into the sea.

The tunnels - known as lava tubes - could even help in the search for alien life on Mars.

The remnants of Qalatga Darband date back more than two millennia.