Tiny bubbles of air dating back over 1.5 million years could be trapped under the Antarctic ice sheet.
A new 80 million-year-old relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex has been unearthed in southern Utah.
An international team of astronomers has detected a galaxy that is 30 billion light years away.
A 19th century fort in northern India could be home to more than 1,000 tons of treasure worth billions.
A skull dating back 1.8 million years has offered new insights in to the story of human evolution.
A fossilized mosquito filled with blood has been found that dates back over 46 million years.
Researchers have succeeded in sequencing the genome of several species of endangered big cats.
New research suggests that the moon could be up to 100 million years younger than previous estimates.
A team at the University of St Andrews spun a tiny object at 600 million revolutions per minute.
The monstrous 16m-long Leedsichthys problematicus would have swam the ocean 160 million years ago.
Visitors to a zoo in China found themselves somewhat underwhelmed by some of the animals on display.
A tiny type of satellite and a new propulsion system could make cheap space exploration a reality.
The complete fossil of a 23 million-year-old lizard has been discovered preserved in a piece of amber.
Scammers pretending to be spiritual healers have conned vulnerable people out of millions in New York.
Concerns deepen over the future of bee populations after another mass die-off takes place in Canada.
The fossil remains of a strange prehistoric cigar-shaped creature have been discovered in Morocco.
Mars could have sustained a habitable oxygen atmosphere more than a billion years before the Earth.
Scientists have uncovered the near complete skeleton of a primate species dating back 55 million years.
A 505 million-year-old fossil has been named after its resemblance to film character Edward Scissorhands.
A chunk of rock nine times the size of the QE2 ocean liner will pass within 3.6 million miles this month.