Astronomers have identified what is believed to be the largest solar system ever discovered.
A computer programme in the US has succeeded in finding the largest prime number ever discovered.
New research has revealed that black holes can grow up to 50 billion times the mass of our sun.
The new platform is able to solve problems 100 million times faster than a conventional desktop PC.
750 million-year-old fossils have revealed evidence of a deadly microbe with vampiric tendencies.
A new wolf-coyote hybrid species is starting to take over and could already number in the millions.
New evidence has revealed that life may have appeared on Earth 300 million years earlier than thought.
Scientists have revealed new findings about the Pluto-sized ball of iron at the center of our planet.
Vitaly Yegorov has managed to raise over 1 million rubles online to fund a new lunar satellite mission.
A new UK-based startup company has an ambitious plan to automate the process of planting trees.
A crystal-based storage mechanism has been developed that can store data for millions of years.
A 20 million-year-old flea trapped in amber is thought to be carrying the ancestor of Black Death.
Samples of fossilized fur have made it possible to determine what color bats were 49 million years ago.
A 3.5 million-year-old bacteria found in Siberia could make it possible for humans to live longer.
Two huge meteors simultaneously slammed in to what is now Sweden roughly 468 million years ago.
A large land mass was thought to have twice spanned today's Arctic region millions of years ago.
The number of trees left in all the forests on Earth is now believed to measure in the trillions.
A new IndieGoGo campaign hopes to raise almost $3 billion to build the fictional Lord of the Rings city.
The UN's latest estimates indicate that the Earth's population will grow even faster than expected.
Billionaire Andrew Carnegie actually tried to put a stop to World War I by bribing Kaiser Wilhelm II.