Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

A new species of sail-backed dinosaur has been named after a famous sailor.

Moon rock collected on the last Apollo mission is revealing more about one of the Moon’s most unusual structures, the Light ...

One of the papers is the first major study of the chemistry of Bennu, published today in Nature Astronomy, revealing that the sample is chemically primitive and contains a mixture of materials with ...

Energy efficiency is one of the simplest ways to save money and reduce emissions. Small tweaks at home can lead to big ...

The Museum's specialist team prepares and analyses biological, geological and synthetic material for staff, scientific visitors and consultancy projects.

My research focuses primarily on the palaeobiology of the ornithischian (bird-hipped) dinosaurs. I work on the systematics and taxonomy of all major ornithischian clades, and have current research ...

The UK Species Inventory is a database of all UK wildlife and it provides the taxonomic foundation for most biological recording and analysis systems. The Natural History Museum maintains this ...

Read about the history of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition and exhibition, from the BBC Wildlife magazine to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London.

The Museum's botany collection holds an estimated 5.25 million specimens of algae, bryophytes, ferns, seed plants, lichens and slime moulds from all over the world. The botanical collection spans a ...

Scientists are retracing the journeys of century-old Antarctic expeditions to discover how the Earth has changed.