This year is heading to be the hottest or second hottest on record, according to the Met Office.

Meat and milk from cloned cattle and their offspring is safe to consume, an independent panel of scientists says.

Rhea, Saturn's second biggest moon, has a thin atmosphere of oxygen and carbon dioxide, scientists say.

Dentists in the Indian state of Kerala say they have successfully repaired a working elephant's cracked tusk in the first operation of its kind.

The European Commission is to ban the chemical bisphenol A from plastic baby bottles - but one expert calls it an "overreaction".

Hylas-1, the first satellite dedicated to delivering broadband services to Europe, is all set for launch from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

A brown stripe on Jupiter that disappeared earlier this year is re-establishing itself, providing a rare chance to study the phenomenon.

After the dinosaurs were wiped out, mammals went from scurrying "vermin" to giant beasts in just 25 million years, a study shows.