Scientists have discovered a tortoise belonging to a species thought to have died out 100 years ago.
A senior software engineer at Google believes that the search giant's LaMDA AI tool has become self-aware.
It has been a science fiction staple for years, but will we ever get the opportunity to do this for real and if so, when ?
An enormous tree in the Chilean Andes is a contender for the oldest living tree on Earth at 5,400 years old.
A man who stopped his car to rescue a kitten was stunned to discover that it wasn't alone.
The US space agency has thrown its hat into the ring with a new effort to investigate unidentified arial phenomena.
A recent poll has demonstrated that many people in the US still believe that aliens crashed at Roswell in 1947.
The next-generation telescope has been hit by a tiny space rock, but there's no need to be too concerned about it.
It's supposed to be the most common form of matter in the universe, but nobody has ever actually seen it.
The 56-year-old made headline news in the early 2000s after he was caught hacking into US government computers.
A grave marker inscribed with a curse in red lettering was found during conservation work at Beit She'arim park.
Data collected during the early days of the SETI@home project is now at risk of being lost.
A new study has suggested that extraterrestrials could hitch a ride across the cosmos on rogue extrasolar worlds.
An unidentified object was picked up on camera during this weekend's celebrations of the platinum jubilee.
As technology improves, we could soon face the prospect of the theft and analysis of our DNA.
A man who had been out fishing in Thailand almost died after a fish jumped out of the water and into his mouth.
Known as 'trioxides', these highly reactive chemicals could be contributing to health and environmental problems.
Archaeologists have unearthed the skeleton of a woman who was buried on a bed adorned with images of mermaids.
Back in the 1960s, officials were keen to promote the idea that UFO sightings were always easily explainable.
The next-generation space telescope is almost ready to wow us with spectacular images of the cosmos.