Marine researcher Marianne Nyegaard has identified the first new species of sunfish in over 130 years.
Scientists in Japan have identified what could be fuel debris within the devastated nuclear reactor.
Stanford University researchers have built a robot that can literally worm its way around anything.
Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong made history when they set foot on the lunar surface 48 years ago today.
Archaeologists now believe that Australia was colonized 18,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Archaeologists working near Borough Market have discovered a coffin dating back over 1,600 years.
Archaeologists have uncovered new writings by Hippocrates, the famed 'father of Western medicine'.
Scientists have identified a microscopic species capable of surviving almost any cataclysmic event.
The heart-stopping moment saw an entire row of extremely expensive art pieces collapse like dominoes.
63-year-old Barry Collingswood has a collection that is bound to give just about anyone the creeps.
A peculiar aerial phenomenon has been sighted in countries all across the world in recent years.
Scientists have come up with a new theory to explain what causes trypophobia - the fear of small holes.
Boffins at the University of Washington have come up with a way to remove the need for charging entirely.
19-year-old Rosa Dominguez struck it rich, not once, but twice after buying two $5 tickets back in June.
Sniffer dogs have detected possible human remains during an investigation on the island of Nikumaroro.
Footage allegedly recorded at the time of the sighting has since managed to make its way on to YouTube.
MIT scientist Earl Marmar believes that we could all be benefiting from nuclear fusion energy before too long.
Today marks 70 years since the recovery of a 'flying disc' at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.
New research has shown that the Martian soil is quite an inhospitable environment for microbial life.
A photograph pulled from the National Archives appears to show Earhart at a dock on the Marshall Islands.