William Shatner Blue Origin launch LIVE – Star Trek actor, 90, blasted into space on Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard rocket

DINOSAURS roamed the Earth for millions of years – until one day, 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount ­Everest struck the planet, bringing their almost instant annihilation....

THE LONGEST partial lunar eclipse of the century is happening later this week. Nasa has said the celestial show will happen in the early hours of the morning of November 19....

MUSHROOMS can talk to each other and have a vocabulary of up to 50 words, fungi boffins say. And they are thought most likely to be chatting about the weather and...

LIVES are at risk due to delays in building the world’s “most advanced” weather supercomputer, a court has heard. Met Office boffins had hoped the new £1.2billion forecasting system would be...

T.REX developed tiny arms to stop them getting bitten off by rivals during pack feeding frenzies, an expert says. The fearsome beast’s ancestors had much longer forelimbs but they shrank over...

DOLPHINS use wingmen to find partners, researchers found. Those with more pals have most sex. Then they return the favour to help the others to pull too. AlamyDolphins use wingmen to...