World-famous groundhog Punxsatawney Phil emerged from his hole in front of crowds of onlookers earlier today.
Researchers have uncovered the site of a 15th-century city which was once home to over 10,000 people.
The Chinese military reportedly resumed testing of the world's most powerful naval gun earlier this month.
The outline of a bear created in the snow on a canal in Montreal has left a lot of people scratching their heads.
Wildlife enthusiast Bret Jones had been out filming birds when he noticed something unusual in the sky.
Engineers at Columbia University have built a robot capable of learning its own functionality from scratch.
A message in a bottle thrown in to the sea 17 years ago has been found and returned to the person who wrote it.
A new study has revealed that our planet's protective magnetic field almost disappeared 565 million years ago.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has captured detailed images of the potentially hazardous asteroid.
A young boy who was found after two days alone in the wilderness maintains that he was looked after by a bear.
One of the most intriguing samples retrieved by the Apollo 14 astronauts appears to be terrestrial in origin.
A road-rage incident last week left one man holding on to the hood of an SUV on a highway in Massachusetts.
Researchers with the Weddell Sea Expedition are hoping to find the wreckage of Shackleton's vessel Endurance.
Researchers believe that they may have found the wreckage of Earhart's plane off Papua New Guinea.
The rover's 15-year anniversary has been sadly marred by the likelihood that its mission has come to an end.
A mysterious room in Darwin's former Reserve Bank building has remained firmly locked for decades.
The data gathered by New Horizons earlier this month is starting to unravel the mysteries of this enigmatic object.
Socks bought at UK fashion retailer Primark recently were found to contain a fragment of human bone.
59-year-old Helen Richards got the surprise of her life when the reptile sank its fangs in to her posterior.
The possibility of a world-ending disaster does not appear to have abated any over the last twelve months.