A UK team arrives in Antarctica to test its theory for why so few iron meteorites are found there.

A multi-billion-euro funding package for the European Space Agency is agreed by its member states.

Defence chiefs want a batch of small spacecraft able to see the Earth's surface in all weathers.

Scientists reconstruct the seconds, minutes and hours following the dino-killing asteroid impact.

Financier Victor Vescovo completes his quest to visit the deepest parts of Earth's five oceans.

The UK volcanologist John Murray has painstakingly measured Mt Etna for half a century.

Engineers succeed in automating science experiments at the UK's Halley research station.

UK sensors placed under the Greenland Ice Sheet will monitor how its glaciers slide towards the ocean.

The British Antarctic Survey produces an exquisite new printed sheet map of Greenland and the European Arctic.

Antarctic glaciers are named after the spacecraft that revolutionised our understanding of the continent.