New evidence has cast doubt on the idea that the coelacanth hasn't changed at all in millions of years.
A US billionaire has funded a private manned space mission that will include three members of the public.
A woman from Toronto scooped a $60 million jackpot with numbers picked from the unlikeliest of sources.
Despite being around for 200 million years, crocodiles are much the same today as they were in the past.
Scientists have determined that mass extinctions have occurred throughout history with striking regularity.
Scientists have found evidence to suggest that another world once existed between Uranus and Saturn.
A new NASA study has revealed just how many potentially habitable worlds there are in our galaxy.
Dating back 2 million years, the skull belonged to an early human cousin called Paranthropus robustus.
An asteroid with enough riches to make everyone on Earth a billionaire is the subject of a new Hubble study.
The space probe has successfully pulled off an ambitious landing maneuver on an asteroid 200 million miles away.
Astronomers have discovered six ancient galaxies around a black hole 1 billion times the mass of the Sun.
A clip that some have attributed to a ghostly visitor has received over 8 million views on the video sharing site.
Scientists have identified 100 million-year-old sperm cells perfectly preserved within fossilized tree resin.
This remarkable new image really does show a galaxy far, far away - 500 million light years away to be exact.
The experimental release of millions of genetically modified mosquitoes has been given the go-ahead.
A 12 billion-year-old galaxy in the distant universe looks uncannily like a miniature version of the Milky Way.
Scientists have successfully revived microbes found in sediment samples that are over 100 million years old.
The ambitious $23.5 billion endeavour aims to harness nuclear fusion as a source of limitless clean energy.
Palaeontologists have discovered the fossil remains of a 70 million-year-old carnivorous fish in Patagonia.
The hour-long NASA video was pieced together from an incredible 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun.