Science pictures

Incredibly detailed images of jewel-like insects reveal the beautiful, surprising, and often downright bizarre sculptural forms of some of the tiniest creatures on Earth.

Memorial services are held in Ukraine to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Reuters photojournalist Gleb Garanich photographed the survivors as they visited the ghost town and the dusty derelict flats there that were once home.

Interactive photos, taken a year apart, show areas of Nepal immediately after the quake and today.

The quake spread horror through Kathmandu and surrounding areas, including Mount Everest, killing almost 9,000 people as a result.

Soviet authorities drafted hundreds of thousands of workers to assist with clean-up operations at the plant and in the surrounding areas

The Earth Day Network has an ambitious dream: to plant 7.8 billion trees by 2020.

Aerial photos of earthquake-hit towns in Ecuador show the extent of the damage as country buries its dead.

The 7.8 magnitude earthquake has been described as the worst the country has seen since 1979.

Aftershocks continue to rattle country after an earthquake killed nine people and injured more than 1,000.

Ivan Shamyanok lives in the Belarusian village of Tulgovich, on the edge of the exclusion zone around Chernobyl.

The accident was a result of a mismanaged test at the Soviet nuclear plant, leaving clouds of nuclear matter spreading across the western USSR and Europe.

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, populations of some wildlife – such as wolf, elk and boar – are booming in the vast exclusion zone around the former reactor.

There are just two weeks left to enter the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016 competition.

Flight engineer Tim Peake is spending six months on ISS with US and Russian crew members.

An estimated 20,000 people with conditions such as schizophrenia are shackled and kept in filthy conditions,

Nearly 30 years after the world's worst nuclear accident a huge structure designed to contain radiation is nearing completion.

India is facing chronic water shortages and drought, as rivers become increasingly polluted and groundwater reserves rapidly decline.

This year's World Water Day focuses on how quantity and quality of water can change workers' lives and livelihoods.

Ten percent of the world's population do not have access to safe water, putting them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death.

Satellite images show bodies of water are vanishing from the surface of the planet.

Scientists hope they will find traces of life – past or present – on the red planet.

On 3 March 2011, a massive earthquake hit northern Japan, triggering a tsunami that killed nearly 20,000 people and sparked a nuclear disaster.

The rare astronomical phenomenon was witnessed along a narrow path that stretched across 12 Indonesian provinces.

At 2.46pm on 11 March 2011, Japan was struck by an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 – the biggest in the nation's recorded history and one of the five most powerful recorded ever around the world.

This year's shortlist includes a map of the human brain's pathways, delicate scales on a moth's wing, and a super-close-up of a butterfly's head.

Bajorat, 59, was discovered by fishermen on his yacht Sajo off the coast of Barobo town in Surigao del Sur.

Some of the tigers have already been removed, after it was heard that the temple mistreats them.

Tropical cyclone Winston tore through the Pacific Island chain with winds that reached 177mph.

Joana Ricou's 'Other Self Portraits' focuses on the idea that there are parts of our bodies which are actually not human.