Europe launches its "Albert Einstein" robotic space freighter, carrying more than six tonnes of supplies for the International Space Station.

Local communities in England are to be given more powers to block onshore wind farms, but also offered greater incentives to accept them.

Researchers have been able to trace the impact of volcanic eruptions on the climate over a 1,200 year period by assessing ancient Irish texts.

Curators at Perth's museum hope scans at a Manchester hospital will tell them more about the life - and death - of their 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy.

Radioactive water is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima power plant, following several other recent leaks and power failures.

Nasa is finally thinking about getting its Curiosity rover moving and heading towards the big mountain at its exploration site in Mars' Gale Crater.

A Neanderthal living 120,000 years ago had a cancer that is common today, according to fossil evidence.

It looks like Justin Bieber will be literally mingling with the stars - he's signed up to a trip to space.