An island near Tonga that emerged from the ocean in 2015 was teeming with unique life-forms, but the 21st century's largest volcanic eruption completely obliterated it, a new study has revealed. The

Black buffaloes wade through the waters of Iraq's Mesopotamian marshes, leisurely chewing on reeds. Among the reeds of Chibayish, buffalo farmer Rahim Daoud now uses a stick to punt his boat across

Scientists have spotted an enormous, 'alien' comet streaking straight towards the sun. © NASA Image Collection/Alamy Stock Photo 96P/Machholz 1 as imaged by NASA's Galaxy Evoluti

Intergalactic gas clouds are slightly hotter than they should be, new research claims, and theoretical particles called 'dark photons' could explain it.

Researchers using James Webb have peered into a molecular cloud to look for these ices which could be formed into future exoplanets.

If all that’s not bizarre enough, a new paper in the journal Biology Letters measured another way in which echidnas are unique: they blow snot bubbles over their noses to keep cool. On behalf of

Researchers believe it shows the aftereffects of a SpaceX rocket launch when the company’s Falcon 9 rocket sent a GPS satellite into orbit

When Capt. George Pollard sailed his whaling vessel, the Essex, into the turbulent waters of the South Pacific in November 1820, he was certain death was on his side. But as his crew descended on two