A fossil belonging to one of the world's earliest known flesh-eating fish has been unearthed in Germany.
Scientists have captured audio of the Antarctic ice shelf 'singing' and it sounds decidedly eerie.
A record-breaking 80,000-year-old clonal colony of aspen trees in central Utah is in danger of being wiped out.
An attempt to build the first car capable of exceeding 1,000mph has hit a major financial roadblock.
The late physicist predicted that genetic engineering will ultimately render half of the world's population obsolete.
A deep sea research vessel has discovered a chain of underwater mountains that are teeming with life.
The plan would involve preserving the beneficial bacteria found in the guts of people from all across the world.
Astronomers have found what is thought to be the first confirmed moon in orbit around an extrasolar world.
It turns out that the devastating bombing raids of World War II damaged more than just targets on the ground.
A gargantuan species of ostrich-like elephant bird from Madagascar was thought to the largest that ever lived.
A mere two months after beginning operations, NASA's TESS spacecraft has found two new extrasolar worlds.
A new study has cast further light on a mystery fossil that scientists say is as 'strange as life on another planet'.
The new planet is located in the same star system as Spock's home world in the 'Star Trek' universe.
The final resting place of one of the world's most famous ships has reportedly been found after 240 years.
Traces of beer dating back more than 13,000 years have been found in a cave near the Israeli city of Haifa.
The elephant bird, along with some of Madagascar's other megafauna, went extinct around 1,000 years ago.
The SpaceX CEO continues to maintain that the world we see is nothing more than a computer simulation.
A single-celled protozoan may actually be a lot faster than cheetahs, marlins or peregrine falcons.
The world's largest atom smasher - the Large Hadron Collider - has found evidence of Higgs boson decay.
Experts from around the world have gathered in Geneva this week to find a solution to this ever-growing threat.