The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday successfully launched NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), a sophisticated Earth observation satellite developed in collaboration with the American space agency NASA, from Sriharikota. The mission, over a decade in the making with a joint investment of more...

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsThe findings challenge "long-standing assumptions" about life's potential at such extreme depths and pressures. They also suggest that these communities of animals, rather than extreme rarities, are actually widespread.Prof Andrew Sweetman, a senior scientist from the Scottish Association for marine...