Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have observed deeper into space than ever before, reaching back in time to when the cosmos was less than 3% of its current age.

The design for the first nuclear power stations to be built in the UK for 25 years will be granted approval by regulators later.

Ministers are expected to allow a firm to resume a controversial method known as fracking to exploit what it says are huge shale gas reserves off Lancashire.

Scientists are using millions of images of Africa's elusive animals to find out how they co-exist in the Serengeti.

The annual Geminid meteor shower - visible all over the world - will reach its peak in the early hours of Friday morning.

The Cook Islands establishes a 1.9-million-sq-km shark sanctuary, shortly after neighbouring French Polynesia - together creating the world's largest.

The team behind the bid to drill into a lake isolated beneath kilometres of ice in Antarctica releases pictures of the start of the effort.

A new species of slow loris, a small nocturnal primate, is discovered by scientists in Borneo.