ULA, the company that conducts most of America's rocket launches, releases details of its next generation vehicle, which it is calling the Vulcan.

The carcass of a rare whale is washed up on a Western Australia beach following Tropical Cyclone Olwyn, which hit the region last month.

From chopping the ingredients to doing the washing up - an all-action "robo-chef" for the home is being developed by a London-based company.

The comet being trailed through space by Europe's Rosetta probe has no magnetic field of its own - an important observation in the understanding of how the icy dirt-ball formed billions of years ago.

Campaigners in the Netherlands are taking the government to court for allegedly failing to protect its citizens from climate change.

The New Horizons probe, which is bearing down on Pluto, has captured its first colour image of the distant dwarf planet.