Methane frosts that shift with the seasons, a massive glacier and craters of gas, Pluto is a fascinating planet.

Scientists reveal how 5300-year-old corpse met his end - and that the 'iceman' called Otzi had 61 tattoos.

A fight is brewing over the product labelling and health claims of the Australian dairy industry's most bitter rivals.

An engineer involved with the Rosetta spacecraft says he's excited about the prospect of seeing it crashed into a comet.

A meat-eating parrot, a sucker-faced eel, a bat that pees on itself and a spider that catches fish. Here's our pick for New Zealand's 10 weirdest species.

This week is International Drive Electric Week, a worldwide event to raise awareness of plug-in electric vehicles.

Scientists have disproven the idea that it's okay to scoop up food and eat it within a "safe" five-second window.

Organisers of the annual Great Kereru Count are hoping there won't be any shortage of people keeping their eyes peeled for our quirky native wood pigeon over the next week.

The country's first rocket company is now almost clear to launch, after the Government signed off on the contract.

A check for invasive aquatic pests around Auckland's Westhaven Marina has been postponed after the dive team happened upon a slightly bigger foreign marine organism: a visiting leopard seal.

Tool use is rare in the animal kingdom - but a nearly vanished species of Hawaiian crow has mastered it.

It's hard to dodge sugar because we have no idea about how much added sugar is in the food and drink we consume every day, a new report finds.

Scientists create offspring without a female egg, which could eventually pave the way for a baby to be born from DNA of two men.

Aussie scientists have developed an exercise pill that tricks the body into responding as though it's been to the gym.

A Japanese study reports: "We conclude that large earthquakes are more probable during periods of high tidal stress."

A new study has raised extraordinary possibility that humans may be able to put themselves into a kind of hibernation state - but in a way that hurts us.

Japanese researchers believe they may be closer to predicting an earthquake, but it hasn't come without criticism.

Two dolphins have been recorded for the first time having a conversation.

You may want to think twice the next time you invoke the five-second rule for food that's fallen on the floor.

Great Barrier Island: a remote gulf paradise we associate with lush forests, deserted white sand beaches and - this weekend - aliens.

Nasa launches first ever mission to take samples from an asteroid in the hope of preventing the space rock colliding with Earth later this century.

The Pope's astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno, is visiting Great Barrier Island today. He talks to science reporter Jamie Morton about faith, science and little green men.

Greg Bruce goes to university to learn how ideas are made.

COMMENT: Don't blame the on-ramp lights for traffic delays, blame the still-increasing amount of drivers on the road network.

Scientists have discovered something strange deep in the jungle of Madagascar: the "ghost snake".

A reef offshore from Patea is not being explored in order to find life forms that seabed mining could endanger - but that may be one

By comparing global maps from the present day and the early 1990s, researchers have concluded that a 10th of all the world's wilderness has been lost in just 20 years.

How climate change will affect cherished species like tuatara and takahe - and countless others around the world - urgently needs to be assessed, scientists say.

Spending 2 hours a week walking, gardening or playing golf may offset the deadly impact of drinking too much alcohol, research suggests.

An internationally renowned Kiwi chemistry researcher has been honoured by her fellow scientists with a top medal.