For the first time ever, it has been possible to directly observe one species evolving in to another.
A periodic slowing of the rotation of the Earth is likely to result in an upsurge in earthquakes next year.
A time-lapse camera captured the moment an intense fireball streaked across the sky over Lapland.
Considered to be a 'living fossil', the frilled shark has remained unchanged for over 80 million years.
A mysterious world 4,000 times more massive than the Earth has been found lurking 22,000 light years away.
Researchers have been able to trace the first ever recorded solar eclipse back to the time of the pharaohs.
NASA has revealed some of the results of its recent experiment involving twins Scott and Mark Kelly.
For the first time ever, astronomers have spotted what is thought to be a visitor from a distant star system.
For the first time ever, gravitational waves and light have been picked up from the same cosmic event.
Nobel Prize winner Rainer Weiss and his colleagues have hinted at an upcoming 'exciting announcement'.
A man from Casper was picked up by local law enforcement after claiming to have come from the future.
New footage has emerged of an eight-year-old from Argentina who honks every time he breathes in.
Thought to be worth more than $250,000, the once-in-a-lifetime discovery was made using a metal detector.
A giant sinkhole has provided something of a refuge for the coral during a time of significant decline.
For the first time ever, a method known as 'chemical surgery' has been used to fix a faulty human gene.
Fossilized droppings have revealed that some herbivorous dinosaurs occasionally snacked on seafood.
A doctored image of Yoda at the United Nations has somehow ended up in a history textbook.
Scientists have been working to solve one of the most enduring maritime mysteries of the modern age.
One of the greatest robotic space missions of all time has finally reached its inevitable conclusion.
For the first time, astronomers have picked up signs of titanium oxide on a distant extrasolar world.