A scanning project suggests that about a third of Ancient Egypt's animal mummies are empty.

David Cameron is appointing his new cabinet with Amber Rudd, John Whittingdale and Sajid Javid among those promoted - but there's no job for Boris Johnson.

Green groups and low-carbon firms have welcomed the appointment of Amber Rudd as new head of the energy and climate department, DECC.

The fascinating bright spots on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres are shown to be a clutch of many smaller dots in new, higher resolution images.

Jo Johnson, the brother of London Mayor Boris Johnson, is to be the new Minister for Universities and Science.

The sixth Sentinel in Europe's ambitious new multi-billion-euro Earth-observation project is contracted from industry.