Nearly every country will see their populations fall as the world has fewer babies.

What was one of the world's greatest undiscovered shipwrecks is identified on the Antarctic seafloor.

The SpaceX CEO says he hopes to launch his new monster rocket system in a couple of months.

Around 11,000 scientists have endorsed research that says the world is facing a climate emergency.

The facility in Cottingham begins operating four months early to help ease UK winter power fears.

The US space agency's Ingenuity chopper completes its most ambitious flight yet on the Red Planet.

The tiny badger cub was found "frozen solid" in woodland by a dog walker.

The BBC gets an exclusive look at a new project to help students deal with rising climate anxiety.

The space agency announces the companies that will work on landers to return astronauts to the Moon.

New experimental findings could help us solve one of the biggest mysteries about the Universe.

Borneo has lost a "shocking" number of its great apes, according to a new survey of the island.

The population of hedgehogs in rural Britain has continued a "steep decline", say conservationists.

A new Oxford University study pinpoints for the first time how high- and low-meat diets impact the planet.

Imagery comes back from the six-wheeled robot that landed successfully at the weekend.

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

Space agency Jaxa said the craft re-established communication after the equivalent of two Earth weeks without Sun.

The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope reaches French Guiana to prepare for a December launch.

Laboratory tests suggest antibodies can recognise and fight the UK and South Africa variants.

The first doses are due to be given on Monday, amid concern over rising coronavirus cases.

Physicists may have just made a major breakthrough in our understanding of the Universe.

How different Earth's history might have been if the space rock had struck a different location.

Three images of Jupiter are combined to make a striking new image of the planet and its famous spot.

Today's precise knowledge of the sky could aid the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ship.

The rocket concept chosen by Nasa to land astronauts on the Moon completes an impressive test flight.

Authorities in China have stepped up precautions after a reports of a suspected case.

Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from climate agreement is criticised by the French president.

Trials with 20,000 volunteers show the vaccine gives a high level of protection against Covid-19.

A US science institute is on the verge of achieving a longstanding goal in nuclear fusion research.

A compelling UN assessment shows the full picture of humanity's devastating impact on biodiversity and nature.

Windier weather, increased rainfall and new capacity boosted generation in Scotland from April to June.

Step-by-step, what to do to help prevent the spread of the virus.

Scientists team up with group Massive Attack to create blueprint that will 'transform the music industry'.

Hangzhou Zoo denies its sun bears are people, after a video of one standing like a human went viral.

The results add to growing confidence that vaccination can end the pandemic.

Four men leave Earth on a commercial mission to spend eight days at the orbiting platform.

There's a new addition to the family tree: an extinct species of human that's been found in the Philippines.

The new strain, scientists say, is carried by pigs but can infect humans and requires close monitoring.

Satellite imagery is being used to count elephants in a breakthrough that could aid conservation.

The underground lakes were detected in the Red Planet's south polar region.

One farmer said the fierce heat meant people had to finish work by 10 o'clock in the morning.

Pangolins should be considered top priority for conservation in China, say scientists studying their decline.

The world's biggest nuclear fusion project has entered its five-year assembly phase.

Numbers are plunging due to pollution, unsustainable fishing and the draining of rivers.

This will help speed up dementia research and the search for a drug treatment, experts say.

The creature lived more than 90 million years ago and its remains were found poking out of the mud.

Latest technology reveals a network of more than 60,000 structures under Guatemala's jungle.

Perseverance will now spend at least two years looking for evidence of past life on the Red Planet.

Astronomers find a vast structure in our galaxy, made up of many interconnected "star nurseries".

Elon Musk's company postpones the debut launch of the most powerful rocket ever built.

Sir David Attenborough "delighted" as mammal named after him is filmed for the first time.

Five challenges of distributing a Covid-19 vaccine to billions of people.

A team of UK scientists have claimed the record for decoding the world's longest DNA sequence.