The US space agency says it will allow Chinese scientists to attend an astronomy conference in California next month, reversing an earlier ban.

Three species of desert dung beetle move with a newly discovered "galloping gait", rather than walking like other insects, scientists say.

A passionate concern over the world that children will inherit sees the head of the UN's climate body break down in tears.

Social media lights up with quake rumours after a giant oarfish once believed to be a sea serpent washes up in California - the second such discovery in days.

A pollutant that killed thousands of birds off the coast of Britain earlier this year can no longer be dumped at sea after a worldwide ban was agreed.

A string of renewable energy projects are earmarked for possible government backing in an effort to speed up infrastructure schemes.

The number of observed exoplanets - those orbiting distant stars - passes 1,000 and of these, 12 might be habitable, scientists claim.

Experts have found the first venomous crustacean - a centipede-like creature that lives in underwater caves.