Nasa’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were welcomed with hugs and applause, after docking successfully.

Researchers use the device to take remote biopsies from wild humpback whales to monitor their health.

The annual duck march has been a tradition at Sedgefield’s Hardwick Hall Hotel for the past 24 years.

While the giant cats are native to California, it is rare for them to make their way into the city of Los Angeles.

The animal stayed in the boat for over 15 minutes and was later taken to get medical care.

Watch video of the super-fast Dana squid getting a close-up 1km below the Pacific Ocean's surface.

A black hole is a region of space with such strong gravity not even light can escape.

BBC News Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt talks to a marine biologist about our warming oceans

Aldridge gardener captures fox and five kits on camera shortly after mowing his lawn.

The mission, billed a world first, aims to bring around two kilograms of lunar samples back to Earth.

The mission, billed a world first, aims to bring around two kilograms of lunar samples back to Earth.

It is the first time a creature in the wild has been seen using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.

Palaeoanthropologist Emma Pomeroy describes the main features of the Shanidar Z Neanderthal skull.

Local residents in Iraq film toxic gas release from oil field where BP operate

Astrophysicist Rosemary Coogan graduates from Europe's astronaut training school.

UK researchers want to understand what triggers the Antarctic to kick out city-sized icebergs.

Ocean heat records have been breaking for months. This is the first global evidence of the impacts on sea life.

The initials on the wall in Pompeii

The BBC's Natural History Unit got a rare glimpse of the behaviour as climate change forces animals to adapt.