Despite efforts by authorities, the vaquita porpoise is now the world's most endangered marine mammal.
Scientists have developed a new testing method to aid in the hunt for extraterrestrial life forms.
Scientists have moved the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight.
The Grand Midway Hotel in Pennsylvania is home to what is officially the largest Ouija board on Earth.
Scientists are set to launch a new expedition to find out if the world's tallest mountain has shrunk.
A worrying new study has shown just how vulnerable many of the world's primate species actually are.
The world's first ever floating city could soon begin construction off the French Polynesian coast.
A huge alligator was filmed by tourists at the Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida this week.
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile will soon be seeking out habitable worlds around Alpha Centauri.
A new experiment has revealed just how gently the world's largest land animal can pick things up.
Ed Whitlock recently broke the world record by completing a marathon in just under four hours.
Despite starting out as the runt of the litter, four-year-old Freddy has grown to be 40.75 inches tall.
Conservationists have warned that the world's fastest land animal is on the verge of being wiped out.
A team at the University of Western Ontario have managed to build a snowman a mere three microns tall.
The Temple of the Jedi Order has failed in its latest bid to be recognized as a religious organization.
Geologists have been drilling a 5km borehole in to rocks measuring in excess of 500 degrees Celsius.
A former security police officer has described the object he witnessed that night as 'not of this world'.
The world's tallest animal has suffered a worrying decline in numbers over the last three decades.
Moon Express is hoping to be able to send people on trips to the Moon within as little as ten years.
The 'many interacting worlds' theory ties quantum physics to the idea of countless parallel universes.