Astronomers have identified the most distant object yet in the Solar System - a likely icy body three times further away than even far-flung Pluto.

British astronaut Tim Peake is going through a gruelling round of final training before liftoff to the International Space Station next month.

A ceremony is planned to mark the start of construction of one of the key astronomical facilities of the next decade - the Giant Magellan Telescope.

Humans have been exploiting honeybees for almost 9,000 years, according to archaeological evidence.