Bacteria recovered from Oetzi the Iceman shed light on his health and also human history, scientists report.

A global network of nine radio telescopes is set to take the first ever picture of a black hole's event horizon in 2017.

Sandringham School in St Albans makes a small piece of history by making the first amateur radio call from the UK to a British astronaut on the space station.

Fracking firms exploring for shale gas are to be allowed to sink boreholes and set off explosive charges without planning permission.

By measuring the age of 70,000 stars across the Milky Way, astronomers make a "growth chart" for our galaxy.