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The award-winning series’ final chapter presents stories of animals’ ingenious adaptations in the face of perilous environmental changes

We wake up and look outside, practising cloud divination

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The Gaganyaan mission aims to demonstrate the capability to launch human beings (three crew members) to low earth orbit and bring them back safely to earth by landing them in either the Bay of Bengal or the Arabian Sea.

Up to 20 meteors an hour may be visible as Earth passes through centre of dust cloud left by Halley’s comet

Sixty years ago this month, France became the first country to send a cat into space. That flight, on 18 October 1963, remains the only time a feline has ever made it into space and back again. How did the French space agency do it – and why?

As the world’s wealthiest men chest-thump in low-Earth orbit, others wonder how their mess will eventually be cleaned up

Some neutron stars could have cracks on the surface, creating starquakes and triggering fast radio bursts screaming out into space.

Millions of people across the Americas watched a rare "ring of fire" eclipse of the Sun Saturday, with some using box projectors, telescopes, and special glasses. Vendors, children, and adults alike were awed by the spectacle, with some feeling a sense of energy and others reflecting on the ancient Maya…

As a new series promises breathtaking footage obtained by groundbreaking technology, children are the new target audience

A crowd of people wearing protective eyewear gathered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, one of many across the western United States watching as the Moon passed between the Sun and Earth at its furthest point from our planet.