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The UK government formally announces a more-than-£100m investment in new satellite and rocket test facilities.

China teleports first object from the ground to satellite

We will have to wait until the second half of the century for fusion reactors to start generating electricity, experts have announced.

A whale appears to play with a pod of dolphins off the coast of Western Australia.

The World Health Organization sees developing a vaccine as vital in stopping "super-gonorrhoea".

Galaxy Zoo is one of the most successful citizen science projects ever conceived. We look back at what it's achieved over 10 years.

Newly-discovered fossil suggests birds evolved very rapidly after the dinosaurs went extinct.

The remains of tiny marine organisms document the wind-driven, warm-water melting in West Antarctica.

A final communiqué seems to be almost agreed, but with one outstanding issue - climate change.

The VP made a tongue-in-cheek apology to Nasa after a photo of him touching the equipment went viral.

Lucy Hawking describes her famous scientist father being asked - what happens if you fall into a black hole?

Germany is battling to stop the US undermining a united front on climate change at the G20 summit.

A mission to Mercury is getting closer to the launch pad.

Scientists have detected a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern

A two-week-old pygmy hippopotamus steps out under the care of its mum, at an animal park in Santiago.

The European and Japanese space agencies put the finishing touches to their Mercury satellites.

Rising numbers of people want selfies riding elephants, or washing them, or patting their trunks, but according to a study carried out by World Animal Protection across Asia, many are kept in "severely cruel" conditions.

The BBC's Jan Bruck has you covered.

Our clothing and laundry are polluting the marine environment, UK research reveals.

Our clothing and laundry are polluting the marine environment, UK research reveals.