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Image copyright NASA/ESA/R.Kirshner et al Image caption This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Supernova 1987A within the Large Magellanic Cloud [...]

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Image copyright Getty Images We now have yet another green battleground in this election campaign: trees. After claim and counter claim about everything from a ban on fracking to improving [...]

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWatch how the Bloodhound supercar gets off the line Bloodhound has now joined the exclusive club of land speed racers that have gone faster than 600mph (965km/h). Running [...]

Image copyright Getty Images With homes under water in South Yorkshire, near record flooding in Venice, and burgeoning wildfires in Australia, many people are asking if and how climate change [...]

By Louis Lee Ray, Resty Woro Yuniar and Sri Kusmiati BBC Victoria Derbyshire programme Image caption Villagers sort through plastic in Bangun for the better-quality [...]

Image copyright Jaxa/AFP Image caption The Ryugu asteroid is 900m (2,950ft) wide Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has departed [...]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Plastic in the Pacific Ocean off California Plastic is building up in the areas of [...]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The hoiho won with 12,022 out of the 43,460 votes cast and verified An endangered [...]