Organisers of a project to create a series of new woods to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee hope to plant one million trees during February.

Some of the beautiful birds to look out for to help assess the status of the nation's feathered friends during this year's big garden birdwatch.

An 11m-wide asteroid will pass within 60,000km of Earth on Friday - one of the 20 closest recorded approaches to our planet, but one that poses no danger.

Graphene, often described as a "miracle material", can be used to distil alcohol, according to a new study in the Science journal.

Researchers prepare pairs of matter and anti-matter particles in a bid to finally resolve whether anti-matter repels normal matter in a kind of "anti-gravity".

Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study warns.