Researchers believe other, similar-sized bodies of water could be hiding under volcanoes around the world.
Hannah Osborne
Nov 09, 2016
Trump wants to invest in space exploration, but has no interest in low-Earth orbit activity.
Hannah Osborne
Nov 09, 2016
Neanderthal inbreeding likely gave rise to harmful genes, lost in larger human gene pool when the species interbred.
Martha Henriques
Nov 09, 2016
Climate scientists are calling Trump's election an "environmental disaster".
Martha Henriques
Nov 09, 2016
The proteins show strong similarities to those found in the claw sheaths of birds living today.
Martha Henriques
Nov 09, 2016
The earliest dinosaurs may have walked the Earth 20 million years earlier than we thought.
Martha Henriques
Nov 09, 2016
Online psychology experiments have shown that generosity is more valued than the bottom line.
Martha Henriques
Nov 09, 2016
DNA analysis reveals how early settlers on Greenland relied on marine mammal meat more than we thought.
Hannah Osborne
Nov 08, 2016
Volcanic material entering the sea may have caused a massive tsunami off the coasts of Crete.
Léa Surugue
Nov 08, 2016
Evidence of life on land has been found in rocks that are 3.2 billion years old.
Martha Henriques
Nov 08, 2016
The move comes after the lower house in Japan's parliament approved the accord.
Nandini Krishnamoorthy
Nov 08, 2016
Producer Elizabeth White discusses 'wall of snakes' scene in latest BBC series.
Hannah Osborne
Nov 08, 2016
Over 90% of ivory shipments seized found to be from elephants killed within the last three years.
Hannah Osborne
Nov 07, 2016
Cliff erosion on the south coast has accelerated by an order of magnitude in the past few hundred years.
Martha Henriques
Nov 07, 2016
Older male bonobos' poor eyesight is bad for their social life.
Martha Henriques
Nov 07, 2016
Insect damage on fossilised leaves suggest biodiversity recovered quicker in the Southern hemisphere.
Léa Surugue
Nov 07, 2016
Australia is expected to be the first country to transition to this more extreme norm.
Martha Henriques
Nov 07, 2016
Archaeologists find evidence of city wall and a temple dedicated to Mesopotamian weather god Adad.
Hannah Osborne
Nov 07, 2016
Snowballs arrived a week ago after the water in the Gulf of Ob rose and came into contact with frost.
Hannah Osborne
Nov 07, 2016
The government is said to be considering bringing back the odd-even car rationing scheme to bring down the pollution levels.
Nandini Krishnamoorthy
Nov 07, 2016
The Met Office has predicted a colder than average winter
Jen Offord
Nov 06, 2016
Findings came after scientists used sophisticated tracking software to follow 34 whales over months.
Tareq Haddad
Nov 06, 2016
Clear skies will cause temperatures to dip, while fields might end up soggy after days of rain.
Tom Mendelsohn
Nov 05, 2016
Tsunamis are rare but deadly - improving awareness is thus crucial to save lives.
Léa Surugue
Nov 05, 2016
After the IC 2163 and NGC 2207 galaxies collided, gases and stars formed a stunning eyelid feature.
Léa Surugue
Nov 04, 2016
The cubs' stomachs still contain traces of what the researchers say could be mother's milk.
Martha Henriques
Nov 04, 2016
Tropical cyclones from a warmer past can tell us what future storms will look like as temperatures continue to rise.
Léa Surugue
Nov 04, 2016
Suspicious sounds of beeps and hums blamed for scaring away sea mammals such as seals and whales.
Fiona Keating
Nov 04, 2016
The prehistoric discovery places humans in the area 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.
William Watkinson
Nov 03, 2016
The process of making fuel from poo mimics the way fossil fuels form in the ground.
Martha Henriques
Nov 03, 2016