There have been more sightings of the elusive creature this year than during any other this millennium.
Scientists have been attempting to work out how long it will take for us to gain an extra hour per day.
Scientists have confirmed that the experimental machine is operating with 'unprecedented accuracy'.
A strange-looking invertebrate has been spotted by a deep-sea ROV over a century after its discovery.
Moon Express is hoping to be able to send people on trips to the Moon within as little as ten years.
An artificial intelligence is learning how to anticipate what is going to happen in the next few seconds.
Richard Branson's fledgling space tourism firm is back on track following a fatal crash two years ago.
The oldest human being on Earth, Emma Morano, is the last person alive to have seen the 19th century.
One of Thomas Pesquet's first tasks aboard the space station wasn't quite what he was hoping for.
An eagle-eyed Internet user has spotted some peculiar pyramid-shaped structures on Google Earth.
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient city and graveyard at Abydos in southern Egypt.
The huge terrestrial crab species can exert a pinching force greater than any other crustacean on Earth.
Geologists have managed to link silica deposits on Mars with biological processes occurring on the Earth.
The specimen is the first near-complete dodo skeleton to go up for sale at auction in almost a century.
Researchers in China have injected a patient with cells modified using the CRISPR gene-editing technique.
A controversial court ruling has made it possible for a young cancer patient to be frozen after death.
Three shipwrecks dating back to World War II have completely disappeared from the bottom of the Java Sea.
64 years ago, a thick blanket of smog covered the city of London and killed more than 12,000 people.
The Dutch company has unveiled a preliminary design for a space suit that may one day be worn on mars.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the fossil remains of a gigantic Cretaceous-era ocean predator.