A pioneering technology to detect fingermarks at a crime scene could reveal extra information about a suspect

Hyraxes, also known as rock rabbits, have become pests in Galilee because they like to make their homes in the debris from building sites, say scientists.

In travelling out as far as Jupiter, Nasa's $1.1bn Juno mission will venture where no solar-powered spacecraft has dared go before.

A polar bear has mauled a young British tourist to death and seriously injured four others on a remote Norwegian island, authorities in the country confirm.

A killer plant kills and "eats" a blue tit at a garden nursery in Somerset.

Boeing says two of its own employees will crew the first manned mission of its new astronaut capsule the CST-100 in 2015.