University of Surrey researchers want to send weather balloon with HD cameras up into space.
Nasa announces Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test flight was a success.
Two-thirds of Emperor penguin colonies expected to decline by half by 2100, study finds.
Over 14,000 people displaced almost a year after Mount Sinabung started erupting.
Flying saucer built by Nasa completed a trip around the Earth on Saturday, despite parachute problems.
Number-cruncher calculates that chances of footballer being bitten by Luis Suarez are 'roughly the same as being bitten in shark-infested waters'.
Spaceman Reid Wiseman uses social media to show images of the Earth and space to followers.
Angara is designed to give a boost to Russia's space mission.
University of Leicester students calculate that it is possible for a man to walk on a ceiling.
A mouse-like animal that looks like a miniature elephant is a new species discovered in Namibia by California scientists
ESA's Athena Space Observatory will provide leads on formation of galaxies and galactic clusters by operating in the x-ray band of electromagnetic spectrum.
Researchers show old world monkeys avoided interbreeding by developing varied faces.
Geologists discover previously unrecorded volcanoes in Victoria and southern Australia.
Major new theory suggests alternative cause for ice age that froze most of Northern Hemisphere
Deformed wing virus now one of the most common viruses affecting European honeybees.
Scientists tested 17 counties in Britain which showed them to have rats resistant to traditional poisons.
University of Wisconsin-Madison study describes how electric fish developed organ to give off shocks.
Australian scientists find three new species of mammal in Papua New Guinea's Torricelli mountain range.
Archeologists have found an Early Bronze Age burial with chariots and gold artifacts in south Caucasus.
Brunel University researchers show attitudes to promiscuity are influenced by financial independence.
Potentially habitable Super-Earth has been discovered near red dwarf.
University of Oxford and University of Cape Town scientists have found three closely orbiting black holes.
European Commission report shows impacts of climate change over next 70 years.
MIT and University of La Laguna research shows prehistoric humans had diet of meat and vegetation.
Scientists reveal protocol which could locate warheads without need for classified data.
Greenland ice sheet collapsed caused sea levels to rise by six metres.
The emission was detected by Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and XMM Newton satellite controlled by the European Space Agency.
More ambitious targets will reduce the EU's dependency on fossil fuel imports.
Greenpeace supporters brand Pascal Husting's European commute as 'unbelievable'
Explorer Steve Libert says he found Sieur de La Salle's ship Le Griffon with 99.9% certainty