A remote Quebec fishing village asks Canada's government to help free a dozen killer whales trapped in a vast stretch of sea ice.

Astronomers report the most distant supernova ever seen - a 10-billion-year-old event that may help explain why the expansion of our Universe is speeding up.

Embryonic bamboo sharks developing in egg cases "freeze" and stop breathing to evade predators, scientists say.

As much as half of the world's food - amounting to two billion tonnes worth - is wasted, a UK-based report claims.

Vast improvements to Hawaii's Gemini telescope permit researchers to take a striking image of a well known feature in the Orion Nebula referred to as the "bullets".

Tiny hairs in the ear which detect sounds have been regenerated to reverse deafness for the first time, say US researchers in the journal Neuron.

California's SpaceX company says it expects to start launching humans into orbit in its Dragon capsule in 2015.

Anglers scratch their heads after a pike is found dead with a zander - a fish of similar size - jammed in its mouth in the Netherlands.