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Researchers report compelling evidence of creating a theoretical particle that has been the subject of a 75-year search for proof.

Europe will build a space telescope to investigate this year's Nobel-winning research on "dark energy". But how will the US react to Europe's attempt to take a lead in this important field?

Researchers have developed a simple geometrical method to add weight to the idea that ours is a flat, dark-energy-rich Universe.

Researchers propose that mysterious "filaments" of radio waves near the Milky Way galaxy's centre could be evidence of the existence of dark matter.

Audiobooks are having a moment. As they soar in popularity, they are becoming increasingly creative – is the book you listen to now an artform in its own right, asks Clare Thorp.

An unpopular theory that modifies gravity appears to outperform the theory that invokes dark matter, in studies of galaxies with few stars and lots of gas.

The most detailed image of the Universe's most extreme environments is revealed as part of a meeting of Fermi space telescope scientists.

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are getting set to recreate the Big Bang on a miniature scale.

A meteorite found in Antarctica could lend weight to the argument that life on Earth might have been kick-started from space.

Astronomers have made the most accurate measurement yet of the mass of a mysterious neutrino or "ghost particle".

A technique using neutrons can probe Newton's theory of gravity at the microscopic level, and may give hints of exotic physics, researchers say.

Scientists have detected carbon buckyballs - the largest molecules ever seen in space - in a cloud of cosmic dust surrounding a distant star.

A series of photographs, allegedly from a woman quitting her post over her boss, have been exposed as an elaborate internet hoax.

The owner of a cat which has had its fur dyed pink and was then thrown over a garden fence in Swindon is being sought by the RSPCA.

A video of a golden eagle snatching a child in Canada that has gone viral online is an elaborate hoax, the clipmakers admit.

Rumours that circulated on Twitter that there was evidence that Osama Bin Laden was a fan of The IT Crowd sitcom were an elaborate new media hoax. Here comedian Graham Linehan explains how he organised the ruse.

Find out which celebrities have seen rumours of their death whip up a frenzy on social networks.

Suzanne Goldenberg: An ambitious plan from the Canadians seemed too good to be true - and it was, as the Yes Men strike again

This was the final public message recorded by the late Sir Arthur C Clarke, which closed the global launch of the International Year of Planet Earth, at UNES...