Just two weeks after landing its Curiosity rover on Mars, the US space agency announces it will send another robot to the planet in 2016.

President Barack Obama says the use of chemical weapons by Syria would change his calculations on US military action in the conflict.

The UK would now have run out of fish for the year if it relied on stocks from its own waters, a report by the New Economics Foundation think tank says.

A curious incident of a deceased giraffe has reopened the question of whether animals mourn their dead.

Shanghai is the most vulnerable major city in the world to serious flooding, a study suggests.

Space physicists are putting together a list of the best places in the UK where people could photograph the Aurora Borealis.

Are scientists close to developing artificial vocal cords?

A project to reintroduce sea eagles to the east coast of Scotland is set to end this week with the release of six young birds in Fife.