Astronomers anxiously wait to see if Comet Ison can survive its encounter with the Sun and brighten into a spectacular feature on the sky.

Scientists set out a broad plan for the big space science missions that will be launched over the next two decades by the European Space Agency.

A virus that hit farms in the UK last year came from midges blown across the Channel from France and Belgium, scientists have confirmed.

A massive "communal latrine" full of thousands of fossilised poos offers a time capsule to the dawn of the dinosaurs, scientists say.

Comet Ison seems to have been destroyed in its encounter with the Sun, disappearing behind the star but then failing to emerge as expected.

Male fruit flies who expect sex but do not get any, die earlier than those who frequently mate, a new study shows.