The universe might not be expanding at an accelerating pace after all
Analysis of huge data set of supernovae indicates Nobel Prize-winning discovery less than certain.
Lefty snail Jeremy is looking for love and he needs your help
Nottingham University is hoping to study the one-in-a-million snail but it has no mate to produce lefty babies with.
Planet 9's weird orbit 'twisting Solar System out of alignment and making the Sun appear tilted'
Hypothetical planet could explain long-standing mystery of Solar System.
Stephen Hawking is really worried about artificial intelligence
A look back at what the physicist has said about artificial intelligence.
Two of San Francisco's most dangerous fault lines are linked - and that's very bad news
Hayward and Rodgers Creek Faults are connected beneath San Pablo Bay and could produce a magnitude 7.4 earthquake.
Mystery flares from unknown source beyond the Milky Way baffle astronomers
Six flares from two sources that lasted just one minute before decaying were discovered in archival data.
Tense wait to find out if Schiaparelli spacecraft has landed on Mars
Descent and landing of Schiaparelli was performed to test technology for ExoMars 2020.
Incredible images of Eta Carinae reveal death throes of Milky Way's monster star
Scientists record extreme stellar winds from stars in binary system smashing into each other.
Monumental tomb of the first ever chief of Nan Madol reveals secrets ancient societies
Tomb on Pohnpei shows how Pacific islanders invented a new society with one single ruler.
Finally some good news for Tasmanian devils
Population of Tasmanian devil has fallen by over 80% because of devil facial tumour disease.
Volcanoes might have forced early humans out of Africa, altering the course of our evolution
Surge in volcanic activity along East African Rift System coincided with arrival of Homo sapiens.
Anti-inflammatories show significant effect in treating depression
Anti-cytokine drugs could be used to treat people who are resistant to traditional anti-depressants.
ExoMars 2016 won't find any aliens – but it's a step in the right direction
Everything you need to know about ExoMars 2016 and the next phase of the mission.
Watch the ESA's ExoMars spacecraft land on the Red Planet live online
Spacecraft will enter Mars' orbit before touching down on the planet at around 3.45pm BST on Wednesday.
The Great Barrier Reef is definitely not dead
Obituary published on Outside Online sparks reports world's largest coral reef is no more.
Ancient footprints near Tanzania's Mountain of God volcano reveal social lives of our ancestors
Over 400 footprints dating to between 5,000 and 19,000 discovered at mudflat of Engare Sero.
50 million years ago, global warming meant Earth was almost ice free. This could be why...
Scientists claim first direct evidence a comet struck earth the same time the planet warmed by up to 9C.
Before the Big Bang there was another universe and a new one will emerge after ours collapses
New model of cosmology reveals the physics of the universe before the Big Bang.
Asgardia is the first ever 'space nation' - here's how to become a citizen
Space Nation will see Asgardia satellite launched in autumn 2017.
Forest fires in the western US are set to get even bigger – and it's all our fault
Scientists warn that despite our best efforts 'fires are going to keep getting bigger'.
Dr Google? No thanks. Doctors still vastly superior to computers when diagnosing illnesses
Human physicians made correct diagnosis over twice as often as symptom checker apps.
Rapunzel syndrome sounds quite cute - but it definitely isn't
Extremely rare condition saw woman have two massive hairballs removed from stomach.
Our 'unique' ability to understand what others are thinking has just been identified in apes
Chimps, orangutans and bonobos display ability to understand a human's beliefs.
Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey rushed to hospital under police escort
This is the third time Cafferkey has been readmitted to hospital after contracting Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Another fault has just been discovered running parallel to the San Andreas one
Potentially significant fault line could help explain why a large earthquake is way overdue.
Watch a boa devour a vampire bat in incredible rare footage from cave in Ecuador
First observation of rainbow boa catching, killing and eating large adult female vampire bat on a cave floor.
Why some people love fatty foods way more than others
One in 100 obese people have defect in the MC4R gene, which could be making them crave more fat.
British trio who discovered secrets of exotic matter awarded 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
David J Thouless, F Duncan M Haldane and J Michael Kosterlitz win for topological phase transitions and phases of matter.
Great Dying mass extinction event wasn't all that bad really
Mass extinction event 252 million years ago was estimated to have killed off up to 96% of marine animals.
A British man has not been cured of HIV... not yet at least
44-year-old man reportedly HIV-free following new therapy that eradicates virus.
