The futuristic X-59 will be able to travel at supersonic speeds without producing a deafening sonic boom.
An experimental nuclear fusion reactor in China has achieved a temperature six times hotter than the Sun.
For the first time ever, scientists have found an impact crater beneath one of the Earth's continental ice sheets.
It may soon be possible to do away with the remote altogether and change channels using only your mind.
It turns out that Pinocchio was wrong - your nose doesn't grow when you lie, it actually gets colder and shrinks.
Scientists have used satellite data to map out the terrain hidden beneath the ice of the southernmost continent.
Scientists have converted a regular shop-bought mushroom in to a device that can produce electricity.
The protective layer is improving so rapidly that it could heal itself entirely within as little as 50 years.
Known as The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), the international endeavour is expected to take ten years.
Scientist Kurtis Baute decided to see how long he could last in an airtight cube with only plants to supply oxygen.
Scientists have created a device that can levitate small objects even when something else is in the way.
Netherlands-based firm SpaceLife Origin is aiming to make off-world reproduction a reality within six years.
Another intriguingly geometric iceberg has been spotted in Antarctica during an Operation IceBridge aerial survey.
An island in the remote Hawaiian archipelago was wiped off the face of the Earth by a storm earlier this month.
The life-size replica of the ill-fated vessel will retrace the route taken by the original Titanic on its maiden voyage.
Boston Dynamics' increasingly sophisticated canine contraption has now learned how to dance.
Several of the late physicist's scientific papers and possessions are to be sold at auction next week.
This strangely geometric piece of ice was photographed by NASA off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf.
Scientists have captured audio of the Antarctic ice shelf 'singing' and it sounds decidedly eerie.
The Chinese city of Chengdu is working on a novel space-age solution to illuminating its streets at night.