The design for Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket has been settled and development will now move on apace to an anticipated first launch in 2020, say officials.

Octopuses that stand tall, darken and spread their web in a "Nosferatu pose" are likely displaying complex social interactions, according to new research.

Sophisticated geometry - the branch of mathematics that deals with shapes - was being used at least 1,400 years earlier than previously thought, a study suggests.

The past 30 years in Europe have been the warmest in more than two millennia, according to new research.

Increasing crop yields could help meet the rising global demand for more food while sparing land to protect biodiversity, a study suggests.

British astronaut Tim Peake asks schoolchildren to help him with one of his scientific experiments.