Bacterial biofilms with "smart" properties could be the basis of greener manufacturing, scientists say.

A rocket carrying US and Russian astronauts to the International Space Station has to delay docking for almost two days because of a technical hitch.

Scientists use powerful x-rays to film the minuscule muscles inside a flying insect.

Scientists use powerful X-rays to film the minuscule muscles inside an insect's body that power its flight.

Salamanders living in the eastern US have shrunk in size in response to climate change, researchers say.

A kangaroo in a Siberian zoo who was thought to be male surprises everyone by delivering a baby.

Scientists identify a large new object in the outer reaches of our Solar System that comes no closer than about 12 billion km to the Sun.

The asteroid Chariklo is the smallest object yet found in the Solar System to display rings of orbiting material.