A remarkable charred black pebble could be the first large-scale comet fragment ever recovered.
Maharashtra has imposed the new law in response to the recent killing of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar.
New research is dispelling the myth that dogs are only able to see the world in black and white.
Astronomers have indentified an unprecedented number of black holes in the Andromeda galaxy.
The species has been officially declared extinct due to no reported sightings over the last seven years.
More than a dozen skeletons have been discovered buried underneath a busy part of central London.
A unique black meteorite found in the Moroccan desert has turned out to have come from the planet Mars.
The new class of black hole is so large that it has an equivalent mass of up to 40 billion suns.
A blast fives time more powerful than anything ever seen before has been found flowing from a black hole.
Catholic priest Pedro Ruiz Calderón was put on trial in Mexico City for practicing black magic.
New research suggests that black bears are surprisingly adept at performing numerical calculations.
An Oregan man has contracted the infamous Black Death plague after being bitten by a cat.
A new satellite is set to be launched in to orbit in an effort to hunt for hidden black holes in space.
A UFO investigation team has claimed to have filmed 'Men in Black' on a hotel's security camera.
British inventor Oliver Blackwell may have come up with a needle that can give painless injections.
A rare white North American black bear was spotted recently in British Columbia, its only known habitat.
Scientists have been able to determine that the feathered dinosaur archaeopteryx had black feathers.
The 'Tower of Babel stele' is carved in black stone and is believed to date back as far as 604 BC.
Scientists have identified two black holes billions of times more massive than our sun.
A canon from the shipwreck of infamous pirate Blackbeard has been retrieved from the depths.