The round-the-world, fuel-free aeroplane, Solar Impulse, head to Nanjing to prepare for an epic Pacific crossing.

Bottles of champagne salvaged from a 170-year-old shipwreck have been analysed in the lab

The mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are back in view.

An international team of researchers proposes adding an extra mass extinction to the current list of five.

The lives of six boys with a deadly genetic disease have been transformed by a pioneering treatment to correct errors in their DNA, say doctors.

Stegosaurs may have had sported quite different shaped bony plates on their backs, depending on whether they were male or female.