Professor Stephen Hawking is to give up a prestigious Cambridge University title next year

A 10ft high bronze statue of Professor Stephen Hawking in his wheelchair is to be made.

Scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research start the search for particles which gave the universe its form

Science writer and broadcaster Sue Nelson reports from the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona.

Our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang, say physicists.

Time for mankind to set sail for a "new world", says Professor Stephen Hawking, on the US space agency's 50th anniversary.

Data from Nasa's Cassini-Huygens probe reveals startling similarities between Saturn's moon Titan and Earth.

The Royal Society's president says Europe should give up on manned space flight in order to compete.

Rageh Omaar looks at the enduring mystery of the Shroud of Turin and the studies that continue to probe its origin.

A space probe measuring the oldest light in the Universe has found that cosmic neutrinos made up 10% of matter shortly after the Big Bang.

It's 30 years since Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy made its debut on BBC radio, but its most famous mystery is still waiting to be resolved.

With a Mormon vying to be the Republican candidate for president, all eyes in the church's heartlands will be on the primaries, but one of those heartlands is Chorley in Lancashire.

Astronomers have found ancient galaxies that appear to be the building blocks of our own Milky Way.

A bust of Professor Stephen Hawking is unveiled at Cambridge University's new cosmology centre.

Almost 20 years after it was first conceived, what will become the world's most powerful telescope, is about to open its eyes.

The earliest stars may hold clues to the nature of the Universe's mysterious dark matter, simulations suggest.

Astronomers identify an enormous void in space that measures nearly a billion light-years across.

The Galaxy Zoo project wants the public to help it classify one million galaxies, to aid understanding of the evolution of the Universe.

Electrical engineer Professor Sir Eric Ash visits Irish company Steorn which claims to have developed a "free energy" device.