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Hydrogen comes in an ever-increasing range of colours. Green hydrogen, made by cracking water into oxygen and hydrogen. Blue hydrogen, made from natural gas with the carbon emissions captured and stored. Grey hydrogen, using natural gas with carbon dioxide emissions released to the atmosphere.

Stunning first videos from a new space-borne instrument designed to improve the monitoring of thunderstorms show the crackle of lightning over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.

The Ariane 5 is set to fly for the final time on Tuesday (July 4), ending a 27-year launch career. Relive some of its finest moments here.

The incredible super moon sight is set to appear in the south east tonight, but sky-gazers will have to wait until moonrise in the UK to catch a glimpse.

Astronomers have discovered high amounts of tryptophan, an amino acid key in the formation of life, in a nearby star-forming region of space called the Perseus Molecular Complex.

The giant sunspot AR3354 blasted out an X-class solar flare on Sunday, July 2, ionizing Earth's atmosphere and causing a shortwave radio blackout over the U.S. and the Pacific Ocean.

Monday night's full moon is the first supermoon of the year

Tonight, stargazers looking to the skies will be treated to the sight of the biggest, brightest moon of the year so far, with what will be the first of four upcoming supermoons

The Merseyside sky could be lit up tonight

The sun has produced 163 sunspots in June, the highest monthly number in more than two decades, sparking concerns that Earth may soon face space weather trouble.

Monday's moon is a so-called supermoon because it will be both full and located close to Earth on its elliptical orbit around our planet.