US physicist Eli Yablonovitch, who first created "photonic crystals" to repel, trap and steer light, will receive the Newton Medal from the UK's Institute of Physics.

Johann-Dietrich Woerner moves from the German space agency to head up the European Space Agency.

A deadly disease of citrus plants spreads by manipulating its insect host, research suggests.

The American New Horizons spacecraft makes its last planned targeting manoeuvre as it bears down on Pluto.

The comet being studied by Europe’s Rosetta probe is riddled with pits that formed much like sinkholes here on Earth, say scientists.