Scientists have calculated how much genetic material there is on Earth and how much space it takes up.
Conspiracy theorists have claimed that a huge comet will wipe out mankind at the end of September.
The late Star Trek actor was recently honored with a main-belt asteroid that now bears his name.
Palaentologists have unearthed a cousin of Triceratops with a spectacular crown-like frill on its head.
The Earth appears to be surrounded by giant, invisible tubes of plasma that fill the sky above our heads.
Smalltooth sawfish in Florida appear to have developed a novel new way of escaping their own extinction.
New research has emphasized the remarkable persistence of life even in the cold vacuum of space.
New computer software is promising to make it possible to translate the meaning behind dog barks.
New research has revealed that the stone's inscription does not relate to the person buried beneath it.
Anthropologists have unearthed the fossil remains of a human ancestor dating back 3.2 million years.
Researchers will be attempting to locate the remains of the famed aviator's aircraft next month.
Researchers at MIT have developed a robotic cheetah capable of leaping effortlessly over objects.
Almost all the water on the planet was, at one point, consumed and then peed out by a dinosaur.
The claim that a massive earthquake will hit California later on today has turned out to be nonsense.
Over half of the world's remaining saiga antelope population has dropped dead within the last few weeks.
The CIA has pulled the plug on a project designed to investigate climate-related security threats.
An unidentified object was caught on camera during a golfing event in Florida earlier this month.
An impressive optical phenomenon created something of a social media frenzy in Mexico City this week.
New evidence suggests that dogs may have been man's best friend for far longer than previously thought.
18-year-old Adrianne Lewis has a tongue that's so long she can use it to lick her own eyeballs.