SCIENCE

In 2019, Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft will fly past a mysterious, distant object - currently known as (486958) 2014 MU69 - in the outer regions of the solar system.

Greenpeace estimates that 12.7 million tonnes of plastic waste – including bags, bottles, and packaging – eventually makes its way into the oceans every year.

Gore address the Web Summit in Lisbon and said the technology sector would have the biggest impact in halting climate change.

Six researchers spent 8 months living in total isolation inside a small dome to assess the psychological impact of an extended Mars mission.

The Australian Museum has released FrogId to try and track the population numbers of frog species across the country.

Apples get brown because flesh reacts with oxygen due of a certain type of enzyme. Scientists simply deleted the gene that codes for this enzyme.

The cosmic event, dubbed SN 2014J, was discovered in January 2014 in the nearby starbust galaxy Messier 82.

Humans are lucky it hit that spot sixty-six million years ago, or we might not be around today.

Scientists from the European Union accidentally caught the frilled shark - Chlamydoselachus anguineus – often referred to as a "living fossil".

Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, has been captured in footage that shows him "waiting to go extinct" in his reserve.

Weighing around 50kg, Siamogale melilutra was much larger than any other living otter and likely would have been a formidable hunter as a result of its powerful bite and size.

"We are now conducting a thorough and fully transparent investigation of the root cause," the company said.

Critics have pointed out that such experiments may one day lead to the animals developing some form of enhanced consciousness.

Astronomers have discovered a cataclysmic event that challenges everything we know about the death of stars.

Startup company MosquitoMate will release engineered bugs in 20 US states. If successful, mosquito populations will plummet.

The discovery was made when University of Portsmouth's Grant Smith was looking at Cretaceous-era rocks collected on the coast for a dissertation project.

The Christian God is held to be deeply concerned with human beings, but the planet Earth is a drop in this ocean of the universe.

The disturbing image titled Hell is Here, was taken by Biplab Hazra in eastern India and went on to win the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards 2017.

The first configuration of SLS vehicle will stand 322-ft tall, which is higher than the statue of liberty.

Sheep have brains that are similar in size and complexity to those of some monkeys, making them useful models to understand more about human brain disorders.

"It is up to every one of us to make sure the next generation inherits an ocean that has more fish than plastic."

The engraved stone seal is so intricate that some details can only be seen with a powerful camera lens.

Astronomers think that the icy moon is one of the best candidates for finding life outside our planet.

After the historic flyby of Pluto two years ago, New Horizons is on its way to a large, but rather unimaginatively named, rock called 2014 MU69.

According to reports, the new exoplanet is 13.4 times larger than Jupiter and orbits its parent star once in every 3 years at an approximate distance of 2.0 AU.

The first snow of the year hit Britain overnight (6 October), as the country braces itself for temperatures that are set to tumble to -10c tonight.

The goal of the exercise was to test the response capability of the network by characterising Asteroid 2012 TC4 as a "potential impactor".

Officers at London's marine policing unit captured this sighting of a dolphin making its way down the Thames.

We dived in minisubmarines to 1km deep in the Antarctic for the first time.