The enormous supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park could erupt with only a few years' warning.
Dating back over 1,000 years, the tomb is thought to be that of King Te' Chan Ahk of the Wak dynasty.
Thought to be worth more than $250,000, the once-in-a-lifetime discovery was made using a metal detector.
A new supermassive black hole has been discovered 200 light years from the center of our galaxy.
Four of the seven planets in the Trappist-1 system are thought to be home to large amounts of water.
The huge space rock is due to pass within a safe distance of our planet at the beginning of September.
Palaeontologists have discovered the skull of what is thought to be mankind's earliest known ancestor.
Satellite data has revealed that there is water trapped all across the Moon's surface, not just at the poles.
A chest thought to be filled with Nazi gold has been found in the wreckage of the scuttled SS Minden.
Archaeologists now believe that Australia was colonized 18,000 years earlier than previously thought.
New research has shown that the Martian soil is quite an inhospitable environment for microbial life.
Pedestrians were left ducking for cover as the swarm descended on a crowded street earlier this week.
A new discovery has indicated that the first humans arrived in the Americas much earlier than thought.
The footage shows a shadowy figure walking up a staircase in a stately home in Rotherham, England.
Scientists have revealed that Homo floresiensis is actually one of the earliest known forms of human.
Last year the Slims river totally vanished in what is thought to be a modern case of 'river piracy'.
New research has shown that elephants possess a level of self-understanding that is rare in animals.
Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around GJ 1132b - a planet situated 39 light years away.
The giant two-legged carnivores of the Cretaceous had more than just big teeth and jaws in their arsenal.
A skull belonging to what is thought to be an extinct species of giant polar bear has been discovered.