Jacqui Goddard

When American and Soviet crew members shook hands through the hatches of their docked spacecraft 138 miles above the Earth in July 1975, it marked a thaw in Col

America’s return to the moon will cost more than $4.1 billion per mission, making it unsustainable in the long term, the space agency’s inspector-general has wa

A British soldier who had never rowed on the ocean before has completed a record-setting solo voyage across the Atlantic.Jack Jarvis, 28, is the first person to

As the mercury rises things are getting a little steamy in Florida, and down in the swamps something is stirring. Home to 1.3 million alligators, the state bec

Scientists have developed a “highly effective” medicine for one of the most lethal and prevalent diseases killing the world’s coral reefs.

It is just a 90-mile journey from dictatorship to democracy, from the communist island of Cuba to the US mainland.For some who make the perilous crossing of the Florida Straits it is life-changing — for others life-ending — as they take to rickety home-made vessels built from ingenuity and desperati

Like underwater artists painting patterns in the deep, a pod of humpback whales hunt for their lunch in frigid waters off the Antarctic Peninsula as an unseason

It is the hottest recorded place on Earth, an extreme wilderness where millions of years of tectonic activity ruptured the planet’s crust to create a visually spectacular but thermally hellish

It did not take long for the debate to start up again, the same, intransigent debate that has haunted America for decades.On one side: reformists who see stepped-up legislative action as key to

Delays have cost the company $883 million as it seeks to rival SpaceX’s Crew Dragon in providing an ISS taxi service for Nasa astronauts