NASA's Juno probe will reveal how Jupiter got to be so big,while shedding light on the solar system's beginnings billions of years ago.
With a nine-times-larger collecting area than its predecessors,the Thirty Metre Telescope is likely to transform the art of astronomy.
Scientists have found two newly formed planets - one the size of Neptune and the other a giant Jupiter-like exoplanet - orbiting two stellar newborns.
The uncanny ability of Kimberley corals to withstand high levels of heat stress raises hopes for the stricken Great Barrier Reef.
The Liliputian Hobbits of Indonesia descended from stranded members of Homo erectus,a human cousin that was about the same size as we are today.
What was labelled a new kind of deep-sea animal is actually a chip off a jellyfish block,scientists have found.
In most animals females are the more choosy sex when it comes to prospective mating partners,while males are typically regarded as being less discerning about their sexual partners. But male orb-weaving spiders can be highly picky too.
The tiniest and fastest-moving submersibles ever developed promise to transform the brave new world of nanotechnology.
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New findings suggest we ought to think differently about our interactions with supposedly unresponsive plants and vegetables.
An active but much dimmer young sun helped provide early Earth with the vital ingredients and warmer climate required for life.