By embedding nanoparticles in leaves, scientists at MIT have created plants that glow in the dark.
Marine biologists have identified what could potentially be the world's oldest living vertebrate.
New footage has emerged of a diver's extremely close encounter with the jaws of a monster shark.
Richard Browning stunned onlookers this week as he flew around a business park in Salford, England.
Dark streaks on the Martian surface thought to be evidence of water may actually be little more than sand.
An asteroid thought to have come from interstellar space is carrying organic carbon-based molecules.
Thousands of scientists from 184 countries have issued a stark warning about the future of our planet.
Considered to be a 'living fossil', the frilled shark has remained unchanged for over 80 million years.
The remarkable species, which once roamed what is now China, had a bite comparable to that of a bear.
NASA has revealed some of the results of its recent experiment involving twins Scott and Mark Kelly.
Newly resurfaced footage from the 1930s shows the remarkable life of Mickey the Minneapolis fire cat.
The remarkable agricultural breakthrough could help to feed millions of people over the coming decades.
Diver John Craig had been spear fishing off the coast of Western Australia when the incident occurred.
The enormous supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park could erupt with only a few years' warning.
A hole in the ice larger than the Netherlands has been described by scientists as 'quite remarkable'.
This month marks the 50th anniversary of a UFO sighting at Shag Harbour on Nova Scotia's South Shore.
The mysterious unmanned shuttle has embarked on yet another mission that nobody knows anything about.
The gas giant is home to one of the most remarkable weather events found anywhere in the solar system.
A man in Edinburgh got the fright of his life on Tuesday when he found the reptile in his shopping.
The spacecraft embarked upon the first of its final five orbits around the gas giant earlier today.