SCIENCE

The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch an orbiter, a lander and a rover in April to the Moon as part of the Chandrayaan-2 (Lunar2) mission.

Seven swans from the Queen's flock are feared to have died from H5N6 avian influenza as experts from Defra check to see the bird flu has not spread.

Archaeologists have discovered a highly decorated 4,400-year-old tomb of an ancient Egyptian priestess just a few miles south of Cairo.

The ash spewing from the volcano could be the key to cooling down our planet and prevent our ozone layer from being damaged.

Japan's space agency Jaxa launched the smallest rocket ever to deliver a satellite into space, achieving a major feat in the spacefaring industry.

The SLS rocket engine is one of the most powerful rockets ever made and can launch a spacecraft into deep space.

The fossil is only the second known specimen found to belong to the rare prehistoric sea creature species called Wahlisaurus massarae.

The fossil was discovered by a young tourist – a 10-year-old-boy – during his visit to the Monastery of La Candelaria in Colombia.

Astrophysicists discovered the cluster of extragalactic planets using an astronomical phenomenon called microlensing.

Scientists believe that around 12,800 years ago, the Earth was hit by fragments of a dying comet, measured around 100km in diameter.

The data gathered during the Image spacecraft's five-year mission led to around 40 new discoveries about Earth's magnetosphere and plasmasphere.

The interacting pair of galaxies is located some 23 million light years away, which is roughly 10 times farther away than the Andromeda galaxy.

"Oklahoma has been transformed from a seismic dead zone to a hotspot in less than a decade," according to a University of Southampton academic.

The site is located close to the monument at Larkhill and is thought to have been a meeting place or centre of commerce.

In 2015, Nicholas Reeves controversially suggested that the mummy of the legendary Queen Nefertiti may be hiding behind the northern and western walls of the tomb.

Visitors at a zoo in China were left horrified after witnessing live puppies being fed to enormous pythons.

Sprawling system of interconnected ancient cities was far more complex, and home to millions more people, than previously thought.

Facebook users were duped this week into watching fake "live footage" of the celestial treat that was the "super blue blood moon", a fraud that racked up millions of views.

The military force was a powerful coalition of Norse warriors who came together under a unified command to invade the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that constituted England in 865 AD.

Although physicists have theorised the existence of odderon for decades, no one has been able to actually see the elusive subatomic particle.

The simulation provides new insight into how galaxies are formed, the origins of magnetic fields, how black holes influence dark matter distribution and more.

The discovery is not only the first of its kind but also points to some kind of ritualistic burial where people could have been intertwined in death.

In all, about five to six Russian tourists should be able to enjoy the trip that could cost $100m.

Most psychologists have thought that authoritarianism in North America may be a uniquely right-wing phenomenon.

Two Indonesian men arrested for shooting a critically-endangered orangutan multiple times before beheading the animal, have said they were acting in self-defence.

Blazars produce vast, hyper-fast jets of incredibly intense radiation and material, which can stretch for hundreds of thousands of light years.

The development can open up several avenues for technologies that rely on light for the storing and passing of information, including quantum computing.

Nasa focuses on encouraging astronauts to eat more in space to reduce dangerous body and bone mass loss in orbit.

Tools made by either early Homo sapiens out of Africa or a close evolutionary cousin found in south India.