SCIENCE

Previous eruptions triggered a volcanic winter that lowered global temperatures by 6 degrees Celsius, halting a period of natural global warming.

The comet entered the Solar System travelling at a speed of 26 Kms per second and may have come from the constellation Lyra, where the bright star Vega resides.

Sand dunes on Hellas Planitia have large, linear scratch marks on its sides at high latitudes.

The latest generation of the RoboBee has potential uses ranging from search-and-rescue operations to environmental monitoring and biological studies.

The dinosaur footprints measured 57cm long, suggesting it was was around 30ft tall - around four times the size of a fully-grown lion. It roamed what is now southern Africa 200 million years ago.

New research has re-examined the skull, which was first discovered 12 km inland from Papua New Guinea's north coast in 1929.

Humans would live in multiple transparent spheres, each containing numerous self-sustaining towers covered in plants.

The note, which Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo, recently resurfaced after it was hidden away for nearly 100 years.

Hawking's thesis was made public by Cambridge, over 50 years after it was first written and has since reportedly been viewed by over 400,000 people.

Sir David Attenborough has called on people to cut down on their use of plastic. These nine items show how plastic-filled our lives are, and how easy it is to cut down on the material.

The BBC admits it breached its own editorial standards when Lord Lawson was allowed to express a falsehood about climate change on the Today programme without being challenged.

The 500-year-old object, called an astrolabe, was used by ancient seafarers to measure the altitude of the Sun.

A photo and video of a moth with what seems to be huge tentacles growing out its back has gone viral - but it is more normal than it seems.

Breakthrough could save pork industry millions of dollars, producing healthier meat and improving the welfare of the animals.

From misty lochs and chalk cliffs to snow-covered mountains and autumnal woods, Landscape Photographer of the Year book captures the splendour of Britain's rural and urban landscapes, from the Outer Hebrides to the white cliffs of Dover.

The free pick-up service from the zoo saves owners money as well as allowing the animal to return to the food chain.

Berlin Zoo is introducing a male to help beat depression in Meng Meng, its popular giant panda.

The world-renowned cosmologist's PhD thesis has been made public and has already received hundreds of download requests.

Dinosaurs have acquired a bad rep for being solitary lone rangers with bad tempers, but a new discovery reveals that they may have been group sleepers.

The space probe will manoeuvre itself into a new orbit which is closer to Ceres' surface in order to get new insights about the dwarf planet.

The UK is bracing for gale-force winds and potential flooding as Storm Brian approaches, with gusts of up to 70mph expected in parts of the country.

The map shows Earth's former surface, which has been pushed deep into our planet's core. The "dead" tectonic plates go down up to nearly 3,000 Kms.

It may be possible to see around 20 shooting stars passing through the sky every hour at peak viewing time.

The week's best photojournalism, from the battles for Raqqa and Kirkuk, to forest fires in Portugal and Spain and Storm Ophelia's yellow skies over Britain.

Researchers have created two-dimensional materials, just one atom thick, which could revolutionize how we do chemistry and may lead to enhanced electronics, among other things.

Space is everywhere around us, but for centuries, philosophers and scientists have not been able to agree on what it actually is.

The cave, found by Japanese space agency, Jaxa, is located near a now extinct volcano called Marius Hill, and is believed to be an ancient lava tube.

A remarkably well-preserved fossilised skeleton of the tyrannosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period was found in southern Utah.

Scientists used a model that "realistically simulates atmospheric conditions" that led to the discovery of a new process to search for alien planets that could support life.