Nasa confirms that the Hubble space telescope has found the 14th and smallest moon circling the giant, icy planet Neptune.

UK engineers will build one of the key instruments on Europe's next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellites, the science minister David Willetts is due to announce.

Household energy bills are likely to rise £100 a year more than the government projects, says energy firm RWE Npower.

In a virtual world adults in a child-like body start to perceive the world more like a child, a new study shows.

American gas produced by the controversial technique of "fracking" is due to be exported for the first time.

Negotiators meeting in Germany are set to decide on the establishment of the world's biggest marine reserves in Antarctica.

The number of animal experiments carried out in the UK rose by 8% in 2012, according to Home Office figures.

Software that can automatically identify the animals that live in a rainforest through their calls is developed by scientists.