A new species of the mysterious arapaima has been discovered in the remote backwaters of the Amazon.
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient city and graveyard at Abydos in southern Egypt.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified an ice deposit with more water than Lake Superior.
A man in France who inherited a house was amazed to discover gold coins and ingots hidden all through it.
A tree measuring a whopping 309ft tall has been identified alongside 49 other runners-up in Borneo.
Discovered in a tomb by Spanish archaeologists, the well-preserved mummy dates back over 3,000 years.
Secret tunnels have been discovered beneath the stage of William Shakespeare's Curtain Theater in London.
A diver believes that he may have discovered a missing nuclear weapon at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.
The unexpected extra was discovered in a photo taken during a recent tour of an abandoned hospital.
NASA's Curiosity rover has taken a closer look at an odd-looking meteorite lying on the surface of Mars.
Packages of CDs containing files about popular conspiracy theories have been turning up around Wales.
The discovery was made by fossil hunter Jamie Hiscocks who found the specimen on a beach near London.
The discovery has the potential to challenge what we currently know of how early galaxies formed.
Russian scientists have located a secret Nazi facility that was abandoned before the end of World War II.
Two previously-unknown cavities have been identified within the walls of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza.
This tiny, distant world is believed to take up to 1,140 years to complete a single orbit of the Sun.
It turns out that earthquakes can occur significantly below the upper half of the Earth's crust.
Undersea explorer Barry Clifford believes that he has located a huge, long-lost pirate treasure trove.
New research has suggested that another of Saturn's moons is home to a subsurface ocean of liquid water.
Three British physicists have been awarded a Nobel Prize for their work on strange forms of matter.