SCIENCE

Nasa's Curiosity Mars Rover has captured the first ever image of giant asteroids Ceres and Vesta from Mars.

The UK is set for a £500m investment in a bid to bolster the green car industry.

Burial place of several royal children discovered inside tomb KV 40 near city of Luxor.

Best photos of the day: 29 April 2014.

An ancient submerged hunting ground beneath Lake Huron in the US has been found by University of Michigan researchers.

For a second day, tornadoes flattened homes and businesses in Alabama and Mississippi.

Team of design students from London has developed 'Ooho' water container, an alternative bottle that is biodegradable and edible.

An annular solar eclipse will take place on Tuesday 29 April which will transform Sun into 'ring of fire'.

Spitzer and Wise telescopes locate coldest brown dwarf star-like body nearest our solar system

A tornado system has ripped through central US, leaving at least 14 people dead.

Best photos of the day: 28 April 2014.

Icelandic eruption could cause extreme climate change and toxic gas cloud, according to Cabinet Office report

Astronauts say the end is not nigh yet - but major impacts are more common than we thought

Debris flow deposits in crater 'formed by liquid water'

18th-century astronomer Charles Messier thought that it was a nebula, but Messier 5 is actually an ancient star cluster

Ancient Earth might have had an extraterrestrial supply of Vitamin B3 delivered by carbon-rich meteorites, according to a new study.

Researchers argue that imagining the universe as superfluid could help to explain gravity

Televangelist Pat Robertson has predicted that a giant asteroid would hit earth and destroy 'everything'

Forecasters warn of heavy rain and strong winds across the Great Plains, Midwest and South this weekend

What led to meltdown and explosion at Ukraine nuclear power plant and what is the fallout?

Researchers at Spanish National Research Council say wild animals benefiting from ionising radiation

The new born Java mouse-deer is the size of a hamster and only grows as big as rabbit.

Space agency joins start-up firm to launch educational toy for children

Scientists in Switzerland have created the world's tiniest mag cover using a 11x14-micrometre image.

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers create Geckskin, a material that can stick on almost anything

University of Cambridge researchers show how earliest Earth organisms became metabolically active.

Nasa image processing technique uncovers Hubble Space Telescope photos of newly formed planets

Best photos of the day: 25 April 2014

The blazing PS1-10afx star explosion spotted in 2010 was not as big as previously thought.