India is preparing to launch a robotic spacecraft towards the Red Planet - a first for the South Asian country.

The US has revealed plans to develop a robot spy plane that is designed to fly at six times the speed of sound.

Part of a giant platypus fossil, dubbed platypus-zilla, is unearthed in Australia, scientists report.

Some 940 badgers were killed in total during a pilot cull, which was lower than the planned target, the government admits.

A new study suggests that simple changes to agriculture could play a significant role in plans to cut global greenhouse emissions by 2020.

The huge stones that make up China's Forbidden City were transported along artificial ice paths lubricated with water, a team says.

A prostate cancer test, which predicts how aggressive a tumour is, could spare men unnecessary operations, researchers suggest.

Astronomers have estimated how many of the 100 billion stars in our galaxy hosts a potentially habitable planet.