Russia targets UK military satellites on weekly basis 3 hours ago Share Save Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent, London Share Save Space X The UK launched the Tyche military imaging satellite into orbit on a Space X rocket last year Russian satellites have been stalking British military satellites, according to the …

Pope Leo condemns climate change critics 13 hours ago Share Save Matt McGrath Environment correspondent Share Save Getty Images Pope Leo XIV speaking at the Raising Hope climate conference near Rome Pope Leo XIV has hit out at those who minimise the "increasingly evident" impact of rising temperatures in his …

Dame Jane Goodall remembered as a 'true hero for the planet' 2 hours ago Share Save Maia Davies BBC News and Harry Sekulich BBC News Share Save Watch: Jane Goodall tells BBC how she became interested in animals Conservationist Dame Jane Goodall, a world-leading expert on chimpanzees, has died aged …

Dame Jane Goodall revolutionised our understanding of our closest primate cousins 9 hours ago Share Save Victoria Gill Science correspondent Share Save Watch: Jane Goodall tells BBC how she became interested in animals She was a serene force of nature. And she never wavered in her mission to help the …

Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer 2 days ago Share Save Georgina Rannard Climate and science correspondent Share Save Gwyndaf Hughes/BBC Nadine Mitschunas is the UK's first rice grower Gwyndaf Hughes Climate and science videographer In an ordinary field in a quiet …

Million-year-old skull rewrites human evolution, scientists claim 12 hours ago Share Save Pallab Ghosh Science Correspondent Share Save BBC News Replica: the skull is a million years old but has some modern features A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at …

Ratmageddon: Why rats are overrunning our cities 6 hours ago Share Save Justin Rowlatt Climate Editor Share Save BBC One morning last year, John Gladwin opened the cupboard under his kitchen sink and discovered a bag of soil he'd been storing there was torn to shreds. Days later he noticed …

Meet the history-making astronauts headed for the Moon 14 hours ago Share Save Pallab Ghosh Science Correspondent Share Save Commander Reid Wiseman: "We're going to the Moon. it's going to be amazing!" The commander of Nasa's next mission to the Moon said that he and his crew would "see things …

China makes landmark pledge to cut its climate emissions 11 hours ago Share Save Mark Poynting and Matt McGrath BBC News Climate and Science Share Save European Photopress Agency China, the world's biggest source of planet-warming gases, has for the first time committed to an absolute target to cut its …

America's blame game over Canada's wildfire smoke misses the point, experts say 5 hours ago Share Save Nadine Yousif Senior Canada reporter Share Save Getty Images Smoke from Canada's wildfires have drifted south to the US several times this summer, clouding the sky with an orange haze. As deadly wildfires …