Genelle Weule

Lyrebird calls echo through the forests of south-east Australia. But the passing of these songs from one generation to another is at risk.

A highly pathogenic strain of bird flu is decimating poultry, wild birds and other animals in many parts of the world, driving some countries to consider vaccination.

It may have looked like a squid, but the beautifully preserved fossil of a creature with 10 arms is the oldest known ancestor of another group of animals that includes vampire squid and octopuses, US scientists say.

Storms can be so extreme that a single lightning flash can stretch across hundreds of kilometres of the sky and last for several seconds, if the conditions are right.

A mysterious asteroid that travels around the Sun close to Earth may be a chunk of the Moon, a study suggests.

The addition of 35 new confirmed observations of these tiny ripples in the fabric of space time takes the tally to 90 detections since 2015.

At the end of last year, the internet was buzzing with leaked reports that a team of astronomers hunting for signs of extraterrestrial life had detected a strange signal. Now the verdict is in.

Astronomers are baffled by a mysterious radio signal coming from near the centre of our galaxy that appears and disappears randomly.

Before you launch your spring-cleaning mission, let’s get down and dirty with what we do — and don’t — know about dust mites.

Jets of blue gas blast out of a cloud of dust in a striking photo of a rare space object released by the Hubble Space Telescope.