The world contains about 8.7 million species, according to the latest estimate - and it could take more than 1,000 years to identify them all.

Computer simulations suggest that violent asteroid impacts flinging life from Earth to other planets is more likely than previously thought.

A recent idea that most European men can trace their ancestry to early farmers from the Near East has been dealt a blow in a new study.

The mysteries of a boulder at a Norfolk stately home are solved by a UEA scientist.

An unmanned Russian freighter launched to take supplies to the International Space Station is lost just minutes into its flight.