Wax caterpillars can leave plastic shopping bags in tatters after just a few hours.
The otherworldly mats of floating strands were discovered at the top of Tagoro submarine volcano.
Titan is brighter at twilight that in daylight, according to a new study.
Bronze jewellery, stone tools and intact pottery were abandoned as the native Colla people fled.
Blue whales have been listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The drug is so potent it has been compared to nerve gas.
Research into the origins of the elusive 'hobbit' species has led to heated debates among scientists.
Tiny Homo floresiensis lived on Indonesian island of Flores until 52,000 BC.
Protesters fear election of Trump and 'post-truth era' are undermining scientific advances.
China hopes to have its own crewed space station in orbit by 2022.
Energy campaigners said it was a 'watershed' moment.
Tories made last-minute appeal to the high court to delay publication of an air-quality plan.
The stone carvings were found in Turkey's Göbekli Tepe.
Cassini will be first man-made probe to explore within Saturn's rings before self-destructing.
Apple wants to stop third parties from using spare parts to repair older products like iPhones and iPads.
Check out some of the best photos clicked by Nasa's satellites and International Space Station.
In 2014 Emmanuel de Merode was hit by four bullets in an ambush but that won't stop him raising $1m.
14 sea lions have died this April from domoic acid poisoning.
Watch the much-loved British broadcaster and naturalist speak at the Earth Optimism event.
Accretion disks that form around young star as nickname 'dusty space hamburger'.
Worldwide, an elephant is poached for its ivory every 25 minutes.
The statue was first discovered broken in 57 fragments and has just been restored.
Musk said such technology would initially be used to repair brain injuries due to stroke or cancer lesions.
Research at Templo mayor and Templo R may provide new insights about where sacrificial subjects came from.
Cosmic alignment of supernova iPTF16geu with gravity lens reveals stunning images.
Cupertino giant makes bold Earth Day pledge, but admits it hasn't "completely figured out how to do it".
A professor at Isro recently revealed that lunar dust mining programme is a priority for the space agency.
Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and American astronaut Jack Fischer will travel on a 6-hour course to the ISS.
Earth Day is celebrated on 22 April 2017 in the hope of boosting climate literacy.
Terrorist groups are said to be exploiting control of natural resources during times of scarcity due to climate change.