Despite being heavily funded Nasa's near-earth object tracking programme was pulled up for not classifying 90 percent of potentially dangerous asteroids.
Jayalakshmi K Sep 17, 2014
Increasingly concentrated urban populations in areas prone to hazards is one cause.
Ludovica Iaccino Sep 17, 2014
'Hazardous eruption' expected at Philippines' most active volcano within next few weeks.
Hannah Osborne Sep 17, 2014
Based on a study of zircon crystals formed 4 billion years ago and more recently, geologists conclude that early Earth was not that hot after all.
Jayalakshmi K Sep 17, 2014
The IPHAS data has placed around 219 million stars it spotted during the last ten years using the land-based Newton telescope.
Jayalakshmi K Sep 17, 2014
University of Leicester researchers reveal King Richard III's cause of death at Battle of Bosworth
Lydia Smith Sep 17, 2014
Companies win lucrative contracts to provide NASA with space transport system
Zachary Davies Boren Sep 16, 2014
Meteorite that ended the dinosaurs shaped our landscape and gave us the forests we have today.
Katie Spicer Sep 16, 2014
Ancient Mexican civilisation made a boozy drink from milk for essential nutrients.
Hannah Osborne Sep 16, 2014
Scientists have found evidence of a prehistoric, tropical rainforest located in Doncaster.
Katie Spicer Sep 16, 2014
Report shows distortions and bias in proposed textbooks to be approved in Texas in November
Ludovica Iaccino Sep 16, 2014
Archaeologists have identified a five-thousand-year-old monument at an early Bronze-Age site in Israel
Katie Spicer Sep 16, 2014
Scientists will now be able to develop new breeds with desired traits.
Jayalakshmi K Sep 16, 2014
Mayon volcano could erupt within weeks says Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
Lydia Smith Sep 16, 2014
Japan Meteorological Agency says no tsunami warning after earthquake.
Hannah Osborne Sep 16, 2014
Studying a piece of the Nakhla meteorite from Mars, scientists conclude that water and life could be present beneath the surface of the planet.
Jayalakshmi K Sep 16, 2014
Studies with mice engineered with a human brain gene show that they were endowed with unconscious learning as in humans.
Jayalakshmi K Sep 16, 2014
Attempts to reduce CFCs have actually contributed to global greenhouse gas levels, a factor in climate change.
Lydia Smith Sep 16, 2014
Earthquakes above Magnitude 9 are 'possible in subduction zones along the Ring of Fire'.
Hannah Osborne Sep 15, 2014
Expert says cold winters that follow eruption could have sparked myth of Ragnarok.
Hannah Osborne Sep 15, 2014
An expedition has begun to find missing parts of the world's oldest known computer
Katie Spicer Sep 15, 2014
Japan's whaling operation leads agenda at IWC meeting.
Hannah Osborne Sep 15, 2014
Boston Children's Hospital researchers say teenagers who smoke cannabis use drug to manage low moods.
Lydia Smith Sep 15, 2014
Hurricane Odile hits holiday resort of Los Cabos in western Mexico.
Hannah Osborne Sep 15, 2014
Scientists warn most glaciers on land will melt rapidly in 200 years.
Jayalakshmi K Sep 15, 2014
European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has a landing site on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Lydia Smith Sep 15, 2014
Typhoon Kalmaegi hits north-eastern Philippines with 100mph blasts of wind
Mark Piggott Sep 14, 2014
Virgin Galactic commercial space flights scheduled for this year have been pushed back to March 2015.
Tom Porter Sep 14, 2014
Nasa scientists simulate distant planets' atmospheres to find environments best suited to alien life.
Aaron Akinyemi Sep 14, 2014
Flight MH198 from Kuala Lumpur to Hyderabad returns to Kuala Lumpur due to auto-pilot problem.
Mark Piggott Sep 14, 2014