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TEMPERATURES are to continue to fall over the coming days, with the mercury potentially reaching as low as -20C in parts of Scotland...

Fifty years on from their dissolution, admirers from Joan Jett to Dave Vanian explain the appeal of a band who ripped up rock’n’roll in high heels – and pointed towards punk

Some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury were captured

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even better view arrives in February and March. Here's what you need to know.

Temperatures are set to drop sharply, with lows of minus 16C possible in Scotland and northern England overnight on Thursday.

Ethereal beauty captured on film

Even as the mercury dropped below freezing, enthusiasm soared among about a dozen hardy swimmers during an annual ritual in northeast China’s ice city of Harbin

Feature | The mini making of Arthur Maclean's Mercury

My hunting education was in the mountains. I've hiked miles, climbed rock faces, carried around a 50-pound pack while my bow rested on my shoulders, and glassed vast open public lands. Not infrequently, I find myself in the timbers, among the bears, and routinely walking up to bedded moose. I move…