Set to launch in December, the lander will touch down on the lunar surface in February of next year.
Scientists have discovered 1.1-billion-year-old pigments beneath the Sahara Desert... and they're bright pink.
Researchers have discovered what is believed to be the first true giant dinosaur dating back to the Triassic.
Police in South Wales have launched an investigation after images of the peculiar spectacle emerged online.
Bacteria that mutate during a trip in to space could become a threat to life on Earth, scientists claim.
It turns out that spiders are able to stay airborne over vast distances using the Earth's natural electric fields.
Scientists have found evidence of a collision between the gas giant and an object twice the size of the Earth.
Climate change is not a new thing, as evidenced by global warming that occurred over 500 million years ago.
The annual event invites enthusiasts to venture outside and 'watch the skies' for signs of extraterrestrial visitors.
An extrasolar world 500 light years away could be the most promising place yet to look for alien life.
New research has indicated that the huge stones were transported over both land and water.
India's upcoming Chandrayaan-2 rover will be attempting to track down a particularly rare and expensive resource.
Geologist Frank Kimbler has discovered what he believes could be pieces of debris from the crash site.
Scientists have determined that Saturn's icy moon has 'all of the basic requirements for life as we know it'.
China's Tiangong-2 space station recently spent ten days 95km closer to the Earth than its usual orbit.
Jason Fisher spent two months in a coma after being found unconscious on the street in Hull two years ago.
Researchers at Oxford University maintain that we are probably the only intelligent life forms in the universe.
The neolithic monument's builders had used Pythagoras' theorem 2,000 years before Pythagoras was even born.
The remains of an extinct species of ape have been found inside a 2,300-year-old burial chamber.
A new 18-page document outlines how NASA and FEMA will approach the threat of an apocalyptic asteroid strike.