A new way to harvest energy from sunlight has been found as gold turns purple in a new experiment.
The elusive Sunda leopard makes its debut as a new species in two locations.
If nearby star Betelgeuse goes supernova we could end up with two suns in the sky.
Kim Insley noticed the phenomenon in a picture of a sunrise taken by producer Bea Chang.
Scientists have proposed a concept involving the sun that could be used to communicate with aliens.
Hatsune Miku is the newest singing sensation in Japan - thing is, she's also a hologram.
According to a new book the Titanic sunk due to a basic steering blunder rather than from not seeing the iceberg.
NASA are planning to send a spacecraft in to the outer atmosphere of the Sun in an ambitious new project.
University researchers have found evidence to suggest that the sun could be emitting an unknown mystery particle.
The largest known solar system beyound our own has been discovered around a sun-like star 127 light years away.
A new study has suggested that dark matter could be building up within our own Sun.
For the first time scientists have recorded the eerie musical harmonies produced by the sun's magnetic field.
Astronomers have followed for the first time ever an extra-solar planet in motion around a white star.
A vast interstellar cloud has been discovered that can produce massive stars that completely dwarf our own sun.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has returned astounding new footage of fiery rings erupting from the sun.
A brown dwarf star could be circling the sun and throwing extinction sized comets in our direction.
Experts in the UK are baffled after a flock of over 100 dying birds fell out of the sky on Sunday night.
Astronomers have determined how in its infancy the Earth managed to escape being incinerated from falling in to the sun.
A Japanese observatory has discovered glowing embers 10,000 times hotter than the Sun left behind following a supernova....
In a bizarre robbery this week a man dressed up as Santa was anything but generous when he entered a bank in the US wear...