SCIENCE

The crew capsule flew up to an altitude of 322,032ft with "Mannequin Skywalker" inside.

A new study further investigates the phenomenon following a report earlier this year of a male snow monkey mounting a female deer on Yakushima Island.

Phaethon will come within 10 million kilometres of Earth and will be visible through small telescopes in areas with low light pollution.

From Nasa and Google discovering a distant solar system like ours to scientists probing the interstellar asteroid for alien signals – these are the best space stories of the week.

The map's individual 60 pages have been restored and digitally stitched together to reveal a glimpse of the world as understood at the time.

The archaeological discovery could help reveal the lost cultural and historical heritage of lost, ancient Afghan empires.

"This was a fantastic way to end the year for SpaceX east coast launches," Jessica Jensen, director of SpaceX's Dragon Mission Management, said.

The Pineapple Fund has given over 59 Bitcoin to US-based Maps. Maps believes MDMA could help with PTSD

New research counters the stereotype that homosexual relationships are dysfunctional. However, bisexual happiness rates lag behind.

Hagfish have extremely loose skin which allows the animals to escape serious internal damage when bitten by predators.

With increased encroachment of forest land, more leopards have been seen venturing into urban areas in search of food.

Archaeologists have studied burial of the elderly in three different Anglo-Saxon burial sites dating back to 600 AD. They found older women's burials were "careless" and modest.

Cory Iverson, 32, was an engineer with a state fire engine strike team based in San Diego and is survived by his pregnant wife and a two-year-old daughter.

Kepler-90i is a scorching hot, rocky planet with an average temperature that is believed to exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit.

Climate researchers compiling a report noticed something odd about the data coming from an Arctic weather station in America's northernmost city.

Antiquities ministry in Cairo says international teams made important finds at archaeological dig at Gebel el Silsila.

Plesiosaurs are a group of marine reptiles which roamed the oceans until being wiped out 66 million years ago.

Excavations at ancient Roman site give insight on how sex workers lived and worked, the sex trade of the city, and the sexual norms and practices.

Raping a woman was not only dishonourable to the victim, but was regarded as "highly defamatory" to her male relatives - who could kill the perpetrator without risk of punishment.

Kisar island - which has never been studied by archaeologists before - is home to at least 28 rock art sites which contain paintings dating back thousands of years.

Loss of water from the mountains resulted in this change, according to researchers involved in the study.

There was an explosive outbreak of severe coughing and sneezing among the community of wild chimpanzees in the Kibale National Park.

'We could end up with 8 feet of sea level-rise in 2100, but we're not likely to have clear evidence for that by 2050,' say scientists.

Researchers believe that the ancient ice core may contain ice that was formed over 600,000 years ago – long before the appearance of modern humans.

Exceptions were made for the poorest countries as their access to energy is a clear benefit.

The researchers studied the evolution of the ice sheet over last 50 million years in the current study.

Industry will remain a focus of increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies as nations address their climate goals.

The hottest year in modern times experienced "multiple extreme events that weren't even possible without human influence".

The video of the animals reacting to their herd member's death was captured by an 8-year-old boy for his school science project.