This was the biggest satellite SpaceX has ever carried into space. It’s become almost routine now – but SpaceX has completed another successful launch of its Falcon 9 reusable rocket booster. In fact, this was the fiftieth launch of the pioneering spacecraft, that’s designed to be guided back down to a landing pad after delivering …

Its adorable fossil is teaching scientists a lot about bird evolution. How much can scientists learn from one itty bitty baby bird? Well, if the bird in question is around 127 million years old, and you’ve got yourself a synchrotron—a particle accelerator used to take incredibly detailed X-rays—you can learn quite a lot. In a …

The incredible sight, near Ramsgate, was described as being “like the Armageddon” by wildlife enthusiast Lara Maiklem. Ms Maiklem, 47, claimed the starfish and tens of thousands of other sea life washed onto the beach as the Beast from the East and Storm Emma smashed into Britain. She said: “It was incredible. There were starfish …

Dr Barry DiGregorio is convinced images released by the space agency’s Curiosity rover this year are proof of trace fossils. The trace fossils, according to the research fellow for the University of Buckingham, represent signs of “soft bodied creatures” who once roamed the Red Planet. NASA said it believes the figures may be crystals, and …

Boffins at the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a graph of magnetic activity pointing to the event they claim is on the way. Significant alterations in the Earth’s geomagnetic atmosphere will be experienced in the three days before the storm. If it occurs, it will be the third magnetic storm to hit Earth since …