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SpaceX has launched a capsule designed to carry people from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Students' mass walkouts to demand action have sparked a debate over school attendance in Germany.

PM Trudeau announces $1.4bn (£1.2bn) for a Nasa space station to help land humans on the Moon.

America takes the first step towards launching astronauts from home soil again after a gap of eight years.

The new combination could be approved to carry people if the mission is successful.

The seven-foot (2.1m) hoodwinker sunfish washes up in Santa Barbara, baffling scientists.

The two-term governor will focus his campaign on "defeating climate change" and creating energy jobs.

Australia agrees to discard of one million tonnes of waste in world's largest coral reef.

60% of the world's meteorites have been found in Antarctica. But what's it like for those who have to look for them?

Britain has a new order of insects - thanks to stowaways setting up home in the warmth of a glasshouse.

The first British-led expedition to gather space rocks in the Antarctic returns with 36 objects.

A London-based start-up's multi-billion-pound project to take the web everywhere gets off the ground.

What is causing the multiple February wildfires and is this the new normal?

The Met Office records 21.2C in London's Kew Gardens, making the UK warmer than hot spots like Ibiza.

Scotsman Dave Mackay piloted Virgin Galactic's rocket plane to 90km above California's Mojave Desert.

A new image from Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft reveals a dark splodge where it touched down on the surface of an asteroid last week.

Scottish pilot Dave Mackay pushes Virgin Galactic's rocket plane faster and higher than it's ever been.

A government report recommends lifting a four-year ban on hunting elephants.

A giant bee, thought lost to science decades ago, has been re-discovered on an Indonesian island.

The privately backed Beresheet robot leaves Earth on a mission to land on the lunar surface in April.

The Hayabusa-2 probe descended to the Ryugu asteroid to try to collect a sample from its surface.

Two students take up the challenge of repairing, reusing and recycling clothes for London Fashion Week.

Reports show many insect populations are declining. How will that affect us?

A collection of images spanning 64 years has been described as the "historical Google Earth".

A UN report says the plants and animals crucial to human food systems are in global decline.

Researchers from the University of Bristol have found a novel way of keeping flies away from horses.

Wild animals are increasingly eating our food and scientists are discovering 'hidden effects'.

A newly discovered relative of T. rex stood just a metre or more tall at the hip, a study suggests.

New-build homes should be warmed by heat pumps or networks of hot water, a report says.

The biggest and brightest supermoon of 2019 was observed around the world.

BBC Radio 5 Live's Sam Walker looks at which foods are better for the environment.

Eighty per cent of Wales' environmental laws are tied to the EU and must be replaced, charities warn.

A 5,600-year-old skull fragment discovered by Thames amateur archaeologists goes on display.

Wallace Broecker, the scientist who helped popularise the term "global warming", has died at the age 87.

It is still the final frontier, but space travel has come a little closer to the public at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.

The Chinese businesswoman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for operating an ivory-smuggling ring.

A mystery disease that is killing beech trees could cause widespread die-offs unless more is done to halt its spread, warn scientists.

Growing meat in the laboratory may damage the climate more in the long run, than meat from cattle.

Clothing brands and retailers should pay per item to fund a £35m annual recycling scheme, MPs say.

Badger baiting: 'Hundreds' illegally killed every season in Northern Ireland

What do these Neath pupils think of plastic waste after a beach clean-up?

X-ray images reveal the inner workings of a variety of different species at ZSL London Zoo.

Campaigners say retailers want fees to apply only to smaller containers, rather than all plastic bottles.

How sustainable are your fashion habits? Take our quiz.

Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.

Scientists have called for a ban on the development of weapons controlled by AI.

Travis Kauffman was hiking in Colorado when he came toe-to-toe with a young mountain lion

Researchers in Edinburgh develop gene-edited farm animals for poor farmers in Africa.