The Deep Impact spacecraft flew by a small comet on Thursday some 13 million miles from Earth.
A treasure trove of insects preserved in amber has been found in northwest India.
India's richest man has moved in to a massive 27-storey house worth over $1 billion.
NASA has greenlit an ambitious Mars mission designed to study how the planet lost its atmosphere.
Any life that existed here 3.9 billion years ago would have been wiped out in a massive asteroid bombardment.
These giant, flightless birds that roamed South America 50 million years ago would have been fearsome predators.
Leading scientists have said that meat grown in vats may be needed to feed the population by the year 2050.
Scientists have found evidence that stone tools were used to cut meat almost 1 million years earlier than thought.
Iran has announced research and development of a nuclear fusion reactor with a budget of $7 million.
A 29-million-year-old skull has indicated that apes and Old World monkeys diverged far later than thought.
According to palaeontologists a mass extinction event occurs on Earth every 27 million years.
A massive whale that lived up to 13 million years ago had the largest predatory teeth ever discovered.
Palaeontologists have discovered two 100-million year-old hairs perfectly preserved inside amber.
A new study has revealed that Jupiter's moon Europa is rich enough in oxygen to support millions of tons of fish.
A radical new theory suggests that a billion light-year void in space is actually one enormous black hole.
Modern humans could owe their existence to a mass extinction of fish that happened 360 million years ago.
In something akin to a scene from Jurassic Park a 95-million-year-old wasp has been found trapped in amber.
The tiny molecular robot is built from DNA and is a mere four billionths of a metre in diameter.
Scientists have discovered a new type of tiny ant-eating dinosaur that lived in forests million of years ago.
Its a problem most people could only dream of - finding $88 billion in your bank account.