Jupiter will appear to pass Venus in the western night sky in the coming days, at a separation of about two fingers' width held at arm's length.

Seven European aviation companies have written a letter warning political leaders of the impact of a controversial carbon emissions tax.

A £50m package is being unveiled to attract 'star scientists' to Wales in a bid to boost research and the economy.

The death is announced of Sherwood Rowland - the US chemistry professor who first suspected that the Earth's ozone layer was being depleted by man-made chemicals.

Drought conditions are expected to spread across more of England in the coming weeks unless strong rains arrive, which is not predicted.

Water companies across southern and eastern England are to impose hosepipe bans amid drought conditions, it is announced.

The European Space Agency is initiating what it expects to become a regular series of small science missions to complement its flagship planetary probes and space telescopes

Scientists map the boundary between the Earth's crust and its mantle - the so-called Mohorovicic discontinuity - in unprecedented detail.