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Nasa’s Parker solar probe is about to make its closest ever flyby of the sun, passing 3.8m miles from its surface on Christmas Eve.

The spacecraft will make the record-breaking approach, known as a perihelion, at 6.53am US eastern time (1153 GMT).

The mission team will lose contact with their …

Many of us will not get a white Christmas this year, but a group of scientists are guaranteed one while carrying out research on the Antarctic peninsula.

While ice and good cheer are expected, their yuletide activities will be very different from those back home. Dr Kate Winter, of Northumbria …

Before Christmas has even hit, there is more anticipation about Boxing Day than usual, in more ways than one. Australia and India sit at 1-1 with two Tests to play, the first at the MCG where India won on their last two tours. The ticketing forecast says it will be …

Forecasters are predicting one of the mildest Christmases on record with temperatures potentially peaking at 15C and no chance of snow anywhere in the UK.

The unseasonably clement weather means no major travel disruption is expected despite possibly the busiest Christmas on the roads for three years.

A new warm …

At the end of an unmarked path on a tiny island at the edge of Stockholm’s extensive Baltic Sea archipelago lies an inconspicuous little wooden cabin, painted a deep shade of red. Water gently laps the snow-dusted rocks, and the smell of pine fills the air.

The site offers few …

A mysterious, dilapidated and exquisitely painted Spanish chapel into which knights on horseback may have ridden centuries ago to receive a wet and most unusual blessing could be on the verge of salvation after a decades-long campaign by local heritage groups.

No one knows much about the crumbling and semi-subterranean …

More UK buses and coaches are expected to operate on Christmas Day than at any time since figures were first collected five years ago.

The Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT), an industry body, estimates that the number of people catching a bus on 25 December this year will hit 100,000.

It was a cold, bleak midwinter afternoon in north London but the race to be crowned as England’s top club side in 2025 is hotting up. Saracens also have key upcoming games against the Premiership pace-setters Bath and Bristol over the next fortnight and this emphatic win over last season’s …

The get-together last week of Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and Reform UK’s treasurer, Nick Candy, wasn’t just a gathering of Donald Trump fans. It was a meeting of minds.

Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly on their political agendas, developed under the umbrella of Trump’s …

Inside a souvenir shop in Assisi, the face of a boy with thick black curly hair smiles out from wall tapestries, fridge magnets and key rings, outshining the flying cherubim, snow globes and other religious trinkets that cram the shelves.

But the owner, Elvira Boccacci, is struggling to explain to …