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After a journey of billions of kilometres, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has culminated in a small black capsule blazing through the sky before touching down in the Utah desert.

University of Bristol predicts inhospitable supercontinent with temperatures up to 70 degrees Celsius

The simple and reliable test could revolutionise the search for life on other worlds, researchers say.

Discovery sheds light on origin and distribution of water ice in moon's shaded regions

But like a college kid dropping off their laundry, the spaceship was just passing through on its way to another adventure.

The most hardcore sci-fi government agency is back in full force. Here's how 'Doctor Who' is bringing back UNIT, again, and why that Avengers flair is on purpose.

Extreme temperatures, radiation and collapse of food supply created by merging of continents would cause mass extinction

Sixty-six million years ago, the Cretaceous period ended. Dinosaurs disappeared, along with around 90% of all species on Earth. The patterns and causes of this extinction have been debated since palaeontology began. Was it a slow, inevitable decline, or did the end come quickly, driven by a sudden, unpredictable disaster?

Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission has successfully landed the largest asteroid sample ever collected back on Earth - now for the much-anticipated analysis.