A new facility aimed at measuring emissions more accurately and helping develop clean technology opens.

The Cassini space probe will dive into the narrow gap between Saturn's atmosphere and its innermost ring for the final leg of its mission in 2016.

An empty Japanese fishing vessel washed out to sea by the March 2011 tsunami is spotted drifting off the west coast of Canada.

Japan shuts down another nuclear power station, bringing it a step closer to suspending atomic energy after the Fukushima disaster.

A telescope from the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh is to be given to a Kent astronomical society.

The feet of insects known as pond skaters have helped to create a novel super-buoyant material.