Arcade Fire have written the music for Spike Jonze's Her

Luxury mobile has the highest-grade build quality, but the innards are the same as a £100 device

'It’s been a real ride getting on the longlist'

Light-year-long proto-star is battling the radiation from its neighbours to try and mature into a star

Today marks the start of the Chinese New Year – the Year of the Snake – and the capital is hosting what the Greater London Authority claims is the largest celebration outside Asia.

Martha Gill has written a fascinating piece in the New Statesman today, collating the scientific evidence for personality differences based on birth month into a set of alternative horoscopes. And there's plenty more where that came from ...

It looks for all the world like a scene from the Nativity, missing only three kings to wander across the snowy fields with their gifts for the Christ-child. For all the world, at least, is right: like Father Christmas, the New York-based photographer Grace Kim traversed the globe to create the single shot here.

Wayne Houchin, 29, was appearing on a show called Closer To The Stars when the guest host, Franklin Barazarte, abruptly doused the magician's head with 'Agua de Florida,' a flammable cologne used in religious rituals

Thousands of New Agers descend on mountain they see as haven from December's apocalypse

Not since Mike Bartlett's Cock, so to speak, have I been so exhilarated by a new play premiered at the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs. 

Antonio Vazquez, Mexico's self-styled "Grand Warlock", has made his annual new year forecasts, including the prediction that the US President Barack Obama will fail to regain the White House.

The much-loved Plough is riding high in the heavens.

After midnight on 13 December, look out for what promises to be the year's best meteor shower.

The barren skies of late autumn are with us again.

Astronomers excited by world 120,000 billion miles away in the Libra constellation

A comet is coming to sky near you, later this month.