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The actor who played Captain Kirk in the Star Trek series is set to embark on a real-life journey into space. US tech billionaire Jeff Bezos's space travel company Blue Origin confirmed that William Shatner would be blasting off from Texas on 12 October. Aged 90, the actor will become the...

BepiColombo: Europe's mission to Mercury returns first pictures Jonathan Amos Science correspondent @BBCAmoson Twitter 2nd October 2021 "Happy snaps": The first images of Mercury have delighted mission scientists Europe's BepiColombo mission has returned its first pictures of Mercury, the...

'Truly remarkable' remains of what could be an Anglo-Saxon church are uncovered UNDERNEATH a 943-year-old Norman church in Stoke Mandeville Researchers were excavating the St Mary's Old Church in Stoke Mandeville They had previously moved 3,000 bodies from the churchyard to a new location It...

Turkey: 'Missing' man joins search party looking for himself BBC News 30th September 2021 A missing man in Turkey accidentally joined his own search party for hours before realising he was the person they were looking for, local media reports. Beyhan Mutlu had been drinking with friends on...

New species of dinosaur unearthed by Isle of Wight fossil hunters BBC News 29th September 2021 The new discoveries have been named Ceratosuchops inferodios (foreground) and Riparvenator milnerae The discovery of two new species of dinosaur, which likely roamed the south of England 125 million...