A gamekeeper convicted of "the worst case of bird of prey poisoning" recorded in England, according to the RSPB, is given a suspended sentence.

The Alma radio telescope has snapped the clearest ever image of planets forming around a very young star.

Observations of a cosmic confrontation between a huge gas cloud and the black hole at the centre of our galaxy spark a debate.

A prototype inflatable incubator for prematurely born babies has been picked as 2014's winner of the James Dyson Award for engineering.

A fisherman captures images on his mobile phone of a humpback whale breaching in the sea off the Isle of Skye.

A new study of the universe's background light suggests that as many as half its stars might be hidden in the space between galaxies.

The genetic ancestry of the earliest Europeans survived the last Ice Age, DNA analysis suggests.