One of the Catholic Church's most senior prelates has said that birth control could "offer a solution" to the impacts of climate change.

A critical new draft text is published at UN talks as the deadline looms for a global climate deal.

The European Space Agency signs a 350m-euro contract with Airbus to build a spacecraft to investigate Jupiter and its icy moons.

Scientists think they can now explain the mysterious bright spots on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

A white fossil held in a Washington museum since the 1920s is reassessed and found to be from a 15-million-year-old sperm whale cousin with enormous teeth.