The UK-assembled rover that will be sent to Mars in 2020 will bear the name of DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin.
The honour follows a public call for suggestions that drew nearly 36,000 responses from right across Europe.
Astronaut Tim Peake unveiled the name at the Airbus factory in Stevenage...
Anglo-Saxon treasure first discovered by a history teacher in a field in 1962 is to be sold for up to £80,000.
Gordon Taylor initially unearthed a piece of bone in Irby-on-Humber, North East Lincolnshire...
Jeremy Corbyn might be acting like a Remainer now that we are actually leaving the EU, but we know that's not always been the case. Many people know he's been a Eurosceptic for decades - as video footage from 2009 proves...
You want to understand why Britain voted Leave? Here is an explanation in three words. Jean. Claude. Juncker. There he was again this week, reminding us of all the self-satisfied, antiquated and anti-British attitudes that we rejected in 2016...
It is 800 years since England first started using juries to determine guilt. Before then, court could literally be an "ordeal" for those wanting to prove their innocence...
A rare natural phenomenon which makes it look like wheels of snow have been rolled on their own has been captured in photos.
Six rare "snow rollers" were spotted by Brian Bayliss in Wiltshire...
The streets of central London were filled with a troupe of 17th Century Civil War re-enactors as they marched down The Mall in honour of Charles I.
Hundreds of history enthusiasts, dressed in armour and uniforms from the period, led...
JUST when I feel my faith in Brexit wavering, the European Union acts like a playground bully demanding dinner money from the class weakling — and I remember why we yearn to break free...
Thousands of people descended on Shetland dressed in Norse attire for the world-famous Up Helly Aa fire festival.
The spectacle, which attracts visitors from around the globe, takes place in Lerwick on the last Tuesday of...
A giant wooden dragon has prompted a police warning to drivers not to slow down to look at it after an accident and numerous near-misses.
The 25ft carving, called Y Ddraig Derw - The Oak...
Almost all elite Brexit opinion, in Europe as in Britain, is built on the premise that somebody on the other side of the Channel is going to do something profoundly against his own self-interest...
Europe still thinks Britain will come out worse from Brexit
Why the EU still doesn’t understand...
Faces of the earliest British residents have been recreated to show what they may have looked like and tell their story.
For the first time, we can see features in their faces...