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The life and humour of one of Manchester's best loved entertainers with newly unearthed photos revealing his life at home

A biodiversity crisis is reducing the variety of life on Earth. Under pressure from land and water pollution, development, overhunting, poaching, climate change and species invasions, approximately 1 million plant and animal species are at risk of extinction.

Jonathan the tortoise, who hatched in the Georgian era, is 190 and the oldest known living land animal on Earth.

In the beginning, God created the heavens, the earth and American higher education. We lived in a bucolic state of nature until an evil serpent, U.S. News & World Report, tempted us to partake of the Tree of Knowledge: namely, college rankings. A fall from grace ensued.

NASA's Orion craft has completed an impressive 'departure burn' manoeuvre on a livestream as it returns back to Earth from its landmark journey around the Moon

Everyone has seen lightning and marvelled at its power. But despite its frequency – about 8.6 million lightning strikes occur worldwide every day – why lightning proceeds in a series of steps from the thundercloud to the earth below has remained a mystery.

They're called "elaliite" and "elkinstantonite," and geologists have never seen them form naturally on Earth

The Autobots and Decepticons are back, now with three new factions of machines who drop into 1994 New York City.

3.4 billion years ago, an unnervingly familiar cataclysm struck Mars.

Scientists have captured insights into our universe with the world’s most powerful telescopes. Here are some of the most groundbreaking images

For the special mission, BBC Studios partnered with Sent Into Space, a leading provider of commercial Near Space launches