A CBBC child star looked unrecognisable as he made his return to screens 13 years on from his TV debut. Percelle Ascott, 31, ...

Whether it's on or off-screen, some Doctor Who companions' best stories happen after they decide to depart the TARDIS and say ...

She’s an actor often relied upon by dramatists to provide the earth to their more fanciful stories: see her excellent work in Torchwood and, more recently, the wonderfully overblown Hijack.

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth ...

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends it plummeting through our atmosphere, where it ...

The world is entering a new era of crisis for children; climate change, inequality and conflict are disrupting their lives and limiting their futures, an authoritative study from the UN Children’s ...

Credit: Guo Jun / Xinhua / Getty Images via Grist As Earth grows warmer, its ground is becoming drier and saltier, with profound consequences for the planet’s 8 billion inhabitants—nearly a ...

Artist’s conception of the K2-360 system, showing the ultra-dense super-Earth K2-360 b (red) in its extremely close orbit around its Sun-like star, with the more distant companion K2-360 c (blue) in ...

Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, The Crow Girl follows DCI Jeanette Kilburn (Torchwood's Myles) and her partner DI Lou Stanley (Vigil's Dougray Scott) as they hunt for a killer ...

Something strange is happening in Earth’s magnetic field, and it has caught NASA’s attention. A massive region of lower magnetic intensity, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), has appeared ...

Born in 1908, she raised four children, ran a family textile factory during World War II, and remained an avid hiker into her 80s. By Martin Fackler Reporting from Tokyo Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese ...