Wildlife conservation authorities have downranked the giant panda's endangered status to 'vulnerable'.
NASA's mysterious electromagnetic propulsion engine has managed to pass a rigorous peer review process.
The swirling storms at the gas giant's poles have been captured on camera in unprecedented detail.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has identified what appears to be an ice volcano on the dwarf planet's surface.
An unmanned SpaceX rocket at Cape Canaveral has been destroyed in an explosion prior to launch.
A flying reptile with a wingspan of only 1.5 meters has been identified from fossils found in Canada.
An asteroid that was discovered only last week narrowly missed hitting the planet a few hours later.
The universe could be filled with primordial black holes which pass through us once every 1,000 years.
Astronomers are attempting to determine the nature of a strange signal picked up by a Russian telescope.
Scientists have found a new way to determine a person's appearance by analyzing samples of their DNA.
NASA's Juno spacecraft is getting ready to fly within 2,500 miles of the planet Jupiter later on today.
A man in Norway ended up stuck after climbing in to a lavatory to retrieve his friend's mobile phone.
New research has determined that Blackbeard wasn't quite as bloodthirsty as history would suggest.
The discovery of an Earth-like world around Proxima Centauri has spurred on efforts to send a probe there.
A huge pearl weighing in excess of 34kg is set to be officially recognized as the largest of all time.
NASA's exploratory rover has recorded an impressive panoramic image from the surface of the Red Planet.
A Bosnian pine tree located in Greece has been identified as the oldest living tree on the continent.
Mammoths could be granted a special protected status to stop their tusks being used as an ivory source.
A new study has suggested that we are perhaps not quite as eternally optimistic as is generally believed.
Scientists have allegedly discovered a potentially habitable planet within a neighboring star system.