Scientist Fusa Miyake from Nagoya University, Japan, studied the growth rings of two trees dating back 1,200 years and discovered…
Hubble Space Telescope has been used to work out on when precisely our Milky Way Galaxy will crash into its…
SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule has splashed down in the ocean off the California coast. The return to Earth completes a…
Supervolcanoes, the largest volcanoes on Earth, may take as little as a few hundred years to form and erupt. Supervolcanoes…
SpaceX cargo capsule Dragon returns to Earth on Thursday having spent a week attached to the International Space Station. The…
An international research team has announced that a successful sequencing of the tomato genome will lead to tastier varieties within five…
Tuatara, a reptile living in New Zealand, has a unique way of chewing its food, say scientists who have studied…
"Tudor era" in history is a misleading invention, claims Cliff Davies, an Oxford University historian. Cliff Davies says his research…
A record radioactive contamination from last year's Fukushima nuclear accident has been detected in Pacific Bluefin tuna caught off the…
An international research team has succeeded in taking an amazing image of a newly synthesized molecule called olympicene. The molecule…
A research team has discovered that the mysterious heads on Easter Island have full bodies, extending down many, many feet…
A one-year-old Humboldt penguin which escaped from a Tokyo aquarium has been caught after more than two months on the…
SpaceX unmanned Dragon cargo ship has been successfully attached to the International Space Station (ISS). Astronauts onboard the platform used…
An international team of researchers has identified what they say are the oldest-known musical instruments in the world. The flutes,…
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa will host the biggest radio telescope ever built. The nations belonging to the Square…
Experts urge deep-sea explorers to take care not to spread deep-sea creatures around the world during exploration of the remote…
British scientists have discovered that Ichthyostega, one of the first creatures to step on land, could not have walked on…
A new research suggests the presence of street lights substantially changes the ecology of ground-dwelling invertebrates and bugs. Scientists trapped…
A British-Swiss team will use DNA testing to investigate the origins of remains claimed to be from yeti and bigfoot.…
Researchers have found that chimpanzees and orangutans really do have personalities "like people". For years experts have debated whether great…
SpaceX has successfully launched Dragon mission to re-supply the space station, the first cargo delivery to the orbiting outpost by…
A row has broken out over the sale of a Tyrannosaurus Bataar skeleton at auction in New York. The rare…
An "annular eclipse" has been viewed across a swathe of the Earth stretching across the Pacific from Asia to the…
Scientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been trapped by ice for many millennia…
The launch of the American SpaceX's Dragon re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed by at…