The pygmy whale is the last living relative of a group of whales that died out millions of years ago.
A proposed $2 billion spacecraft would perform several flyovers of Jupiter's enigmatic ice-covered moon.
A new company headed by two ex-NASA officials hopes to provide flights before the decade is out.
The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a galaxy that is 13.3 billion light years away.
Astronomers have found that the rate of star birth is 30 times less than it was 11 billion years ago.
Clairvoyant Beti Schulz has retired after her lottery numbers netted an impressive £2.2 million jackpot.
Scientists believe the first creature with teeth was a fish that lived 380 million years ago.
A fresh sighting from two dog walkers has reignited the possibility of a lion on the loose in England.
Pegomastax would have lived 200 million years ago and could shed light on the evolution of other species.
A $1 billion mission to retrieve the first ever fresh samples of our planet's mantle has been proposed.
A previously unknown species of winged reptile dating back 155 million years has been unearthed.
Scientists have discovered well preserved insects dating back over 230 million years to the Triassic era.
Police in England are investigating reports of a lion on the loose following multiple sightings.
The founder of Microsoft has turned his attention to providing toilet facilities to 2.5 billion people.
A painting kept in a Scottish farmhouse could turn out to be a Da Vinci worth over $150 million.
Suborbital space trips could generate as much as $1.6 billion within the first decade of operations.
A spiral galaxy dating back to just 3 billion years after the Big Bang has been photographed by Hubble.
A new budget device could provide millions of disabled people with a way to interact with computers.
A carpenter has spent three years and over one million pounds building a full size replica of Noah's Ark.
Parts of Antarctica would have enjoyed a warmer climate ripe with greenery around 15 million years ago.