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Private company SpaceX has carried out its first test of the Raptor rocket engine designed to send humans to Mars.

A "colossal" wasp nest the size of a "barrel" with a 1.4m tunnel attached is found in an attic.

China’s Geely auto group has become the main sponsor behind the British Bloodhound supersonic car project, enabling an assault on the land speed record.

Monday's successful launch of eight satellites into space proves India's commercial space programme is booming, writes Yogita Limaye.

As the Cites conference on endangered species meets in Johannesburg, Matt McGrath travelled to Zambia to hear the voices of people with first-hand experience of conflicts between humans and wildlife.

A conference in South Africa could make the trade in pangolin illegal.

Elephant populations in Africa have declined by around 111,000 over the past ten years according to a new study presented at the Cites meeting in South Africa.

The world's largest radio telescope has received its first signals from space and is now entering an intensive testing phase.

As the population grows over the next 20 years half the world will be left malnourished, an independent panel of experts on food and agriculture warns.

President Barack Obama has created the first underwater national monument off the US east coast, protecting a vast ecosystem of canyons and extinct volcanoes. It is home to thousands of rare species, but is also a source of controversy.

A hedgehog officer explains how to help hedgehogs in your garden

The world's biggest conference on species protection has opened in South Africa amid differing views on the survival of elephants.

Horses have joined a select club of animals that can communicate by pointing to symbols, say scientists.

Two skeletons have been discovered in a London graveyard which could change our view of the history of Europe and Asia.

Flu carried by migratory birds poses a risk to penguins living in Antarctica, scientists warn.

The body tasked with managing trade in endangered species will oppose efforts to increase global protection for elephants, saying it could spark a new trade in ivory.

Tropical dry forests are among the most threatened habitats on the planet, yet remain overlooked by scientists and conservationists, warn researchers.

The government is to outline its plans to strengthen collaborative research between the UK and China.

A British man who lived in the Swiss Alps as a goat for three days wins one of this year's Ig Nobel prizes.

Four rare white lion cubs have been born in a zoo in Poland.