The Northern Lights have splashed vivid colour across Scotland's night skies, with stunning images captured by BBC Weather ...

Up Helly Aa celebrates the long Norse period in Shetland, which lasted some 600 years after the first Vikings landed on its shores between 800 and 850 AD with the islands part of the Kingdom of ...

The International Space Station (ISS) has caught rare images of the aurora borealis dancing over the skies of Canada. The ...

Up Helly Aa in Lerwick on the Shetland Islands, is held on the last Tuesday ... resorts to visit that don’t require a seaplane Images of Kumbh Mela, the biggest festival in the world 10 ...

From fiery festivals to nature's most dazzling "sky-dance", interest in the night skies is booming, with "noctourism" poised ...

But as the ice cap melts new risks and opportunities are emerging (Photo: Ignatiev/Getty Images) It has become such a pressing ... by virtue of the Shetland Islands, the Arctic’s nearest neighbour ...

A £127 million contract will see Airbus design and construct two synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites in the UK ready ...

It’s not hard to understand why capys have a cultlike following on Instagram and TikTok. I fell for the giant rodent decades ...

New food hygiene ratings have been awarded to three of the Shetland Islands’s restaurants, cafes or canteens, the Food ...

A number of companies plan to use SaxaVord Spaceport, on Unst in the Shetland Islands, as a launch site for commercial rockets. Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), from Germany, is thought to have the ...

The Scottish Affairs Committee heard SaxaVord Spaceport on Unst is ‘absolutely’ planning on a launch this year.