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On Sept. 7, 1995, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-69. This was the 100th successful crew spaceflight mission for NASA.Endeavour lifted off from NASA's historic Pad 39A launch site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During...

Available for over a yearAfter a record 250 consecutive days at sea, the USS Abraham Lincoln finally docked in Thailand last week. Half of the 5,000 crew members are under 24 years old and they’ve been on board since...

Leah Cottell, who has been leading the study, said the process had been "incredibly time-consuming" but she had learned a lot."I knew that we had ferrets on the island, but we didn't really know anything about them," she told...

A pioneering fossil hunter who was one of the first women to be employed by the Natural History Museum has been recognised with a national blue plaque.Dorothea Bate, who died in 1951 aged 72, "transformed our understanding of prehistoric...

The teenager trains at Elite Fitness gym in Redditch and, despite recently moving to Worcester, still travels the 45 minutes to get there.Sam Pope, who works there, says Lhamo is an inspiration."For other young people of her age, it...

Winter near the Antarctic Circle brings months of frozen darkness, when sea ice chokes ocean waters and many of its denizens hunker down to ride out the harsh conditions. But as winter began to release its icy grip, an...

Ten years ago, Meghan Cliffel was a working mother in New York City. In December 2015, she was back at work, eight months after giving birth to her second girl: "I had taken on a...

A student has been using hair from a 120-year-old museum exhibit to help find new ways of solving wildlife crime.The taxidermy bear, known as Boris, is a popular feature at the Museum of Chelmsford and is regarded as its...

The planet Venus is arguably the most mischievous planetary body in the solar system. This is because like Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, Venus is shrouded in a thick atmosphere that can’t...