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Japan's space agency (Jaxa) is about to send a 10kg lander to the surface of an asteroid.

Scientists are investigating why around 70 deep water whales have washed up on Scottish and Irish beaches since the beginning of August.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to a woman for only the third time since the award began.

1.5C has become the new "safe" upper-limit for global warming - but whatever happened to the two-degree target?

One Indonesian inventor has found a unique solution to the problem of plastic food packaging.

Prof Alessandro Strumia, of Pisa University, had said "physics was invented and built by men".

Researchers are trying to establish why Friday's quake generated such big waves.

Cern removes "highly offensive" slides from website from a talk on women in particle physics

Not everyone is happy with a missing detail in a new film about the 1969 Moon landing.

Scientists meet in Korea to discuss a report aimed at keeping global temperature rise under 1.5C this century.

An antelope caught on camera in Uganda for the first time sheds light on an unexplored rainforest.

Meet the man who inspired Robert Downey Jr's take on Iron Man.

Volunteers are urged to make a weekly record of the Tawny owl's distinctive hoot, as numbers fall.

Orcas are in deep trouble because of persistent chemical pollution in the environment, researchers say.

Traditional remedies used by gardeners to deter slugs and snails appear to have no scientific merit.

Chemical pollution threatens the long-term viability of the most exposed orca groups.

HS2 is going to be built through these bats' habitat.

Japan has released new images from the robot rovers it has deployed to the surface of an asteroid.

It connects 17 national parks and runs for 2,800km (1,740 miles) through sparsely populated land.

The profile of Arctic shrubs and grasses is changing as temperatures rise in the far north.