Paul Rincon

Scientists have created the world’s oldest family tree from bones interred at a 5,700-year-old tomb.

Scientists uncover evidence for a large-scale, prehistoric migration into Britain in the Bronze Age.

A spacecraft has started its journey as it aims to deliberately nudge an asteroid off course.

The company unveils an advanced “quantum” processor that’s part of an effort to build super-fast computers.

A Briton and a German have been awarded the chemistry Nobel for their work to build new molecules.

The space agency will send a rover to look for water-ice near a crater at the Moon’s South Pole.

Engineers restore the Hubble Space Telescope to full operations, after a computer glitch in June.

Results from a UK experiment could help clear a hurdle to achieving commercial fusion power.

Michael Collins stayed in orbit as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon in 1969.

Engineers have carried out a major engine test of Nasa’s Space Launch System.

A mission to study a moon that could be home to extra-terrestrial life has been given a launch date.

Record-breaking astronaut Scott Kelly talks about living in space and his desire to go back.

Nasa has announced 18 astronauts who will travel to the Moon under the agency’s Artemis programme.

A pioneering nuclear fusion experiment based in Oxfordshire has been switched on for the first time.

The underground lakes were detected in the Red Planet’s south polar region.

Nasa astronaut Christina Koch completes the longest-ever single spaceflight by a woman.

Astronomers find a vast structure in our galaxy, made up of many interconnected “star nurseries”.

The oxygen in Martian air is changing in a way that can’t currently be explained by known chemical processes.

Three scientists have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries about the Universe.

Nasa has outlined more details of its plans for a landing craft that will take humans to the Moon’s surface in the 2020s.