Wildlife Photographer of the Year is back, celebrating the most extraordinary life with which we share this planet while spotlighting the many threats they face.

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

Moon rock collected on the last Apollo mission is revealing more about one of the Moon’s most unusual structures, the Light ...

A new species of sail-backed dinosaur has been named after a famous sailor.

One of the papers is the first major study of the chemistry of Bennu, published today in Nature Astronomy, revealing that the sample is chemically primitive and contains a mixture of materials with ...

The community science team works to transform the potential of individuals and communities to collaborate in research, building knowledge and agency to take environmental action.

Many regions of the deep sea are currently being explored for the potential to mine them for minerals, but it is still largely unknown what actually lives on the seabed. Two new papers have looked at ...

The world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, could disappear in the next century as rising sea levels threaten to submerge its habitat.

Up to three quarters of all of Britain's rural hedgehogs have been lost in the past 20 years. While rural hedgehogs have experienced a sharp decline, their urban counterparts appear to have a stable ...

Over the last two years we’ve been transforming our five-acre gardens into a haven for people and wildlife – all part of our work across the UK to support urban nature recovery. Our scientists are ...

Asian giant hornets are the largest social wasps in the world. Frequently referred to online and in the media as 'murder hornets', sightings of this species in North America, thousands of kilometres ...

Human remains from across north-western Europe indicate that cannibalism was a funerary practice. ©The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London ...