The flu virus can kill up to half a million people a year at the best of times, with the current threat of a swine flu p...
It sits at the centre of the M87 galaxy and weighs the same as 6.4 billion suns, this supermassive black hole situated o...
Scientists have uncovered a prehistoric "runway" in the limestone deposits of an ancient lagoon that would have been use...
Palaeontologists have managed to extract ink from a fossilised squid and used it to draw with, the fossil is believed to...
Studies of a pterodactyl fossil have shown that the creature had complex wing fibers that would have enabled it to fly w...
A barrage of comets some 3.85 billion years ago could have accounted for the arrival of the Earth's oceans a new study h...
During the first million years of their formation comets would have contained large amounts of liquid water it has been ...
101 years ago a huge explosion occured over Tunguska, the blast causing devastation over 2,000 square kilometers and des...
Life would have been prevented from developing on early Mars as the surface would have been molten for over 100 million ...
New research has revealed that lightning strikes release rare forms of phosphorus in the soil that could have been an im...
India are planning to reintroduce cheetahs in to the wild, the last documented sighting was in 1947 and they were offici...
Astrophysicists have discovered what is believed to be a medium-sized black hole over 290 million light years away. The ...
Scientists have analysed the amazingly well-preserved fossil of a dinosaur, the creature's soft tissues managed to avoid...
After a recent announcement involving the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant millions waited with baited breath, now i...
The fossilized remains of the oldest known relative of the modern elephant have been unearthed in Morocco. At over 60 mi...
An ancient fossil species over 11.9 million years old has been discovered in Spain. The species has an unusually flat an...
It has been revealed that astronomers have calculated a 'tiny chance' that Mars or Venus could collide with the Earth, e...
Astronomers have determined that the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is at least twice as large ...
Scientists have used rader to peer in to the past in Antarctica's Gamburstev mountains, revealing peaks and valleys buri...
It is believed that a massive bombardment of meteorites billions of years ago could have potentially been sufficient to ...