An ever-shrinking gene pool due to population decline has been producing some unexpected mutations.
Following on from its historic flyby of Pluto in 2015, the probe will reach its next destination on New Year's Day.
Despite the detection of methane in 2003 and 2014, the latest findings have revealed no evidence of it at all.
A woman in Ontario was recently arrested for witchcraft two days before the archaic law was set to be scrubbed.
This recently released photograph shows the 60km-wide Korolev Crater in Mars' north polar region.
Astronomers have identified the farthest known object in our solar system at a distance of 11 billion miles.
The two world powers have reportedly been working together on a series of controversial experiments.
Scientists have discovered some rather unusual feathers within pieces of amber dating back 100 million years.
NASA has proposed a new mission to delve deep beneath the icy crust of Jupiter's moon Europa.
Scientists have discovered a way to reduce 3D objects to a mere one thousandth of their original size.
Andrew Isaacson had been visiting Australia's Cape Willoughby Lighthouse when the picture was taken.
Newly declassified documents have revealed the CIA's efforts to control dogs through electrical brain stimulation.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe seems to have hit the jackpot within a week of arriving at its destination.
A Laysan albatross known as 'Wisdom' has exceeded all expectations by laying an egg at the ripe old age of 68.
NASA has confirmed that the probe has become the second spacecraft ever to leave the heliosphere.
The highly ambitious Bloodhound SSC has now gone up for sale following a spate of financial difficulties.
An Outer Banks fisherman recently captured footage of some mysterious lights hovering over the ocean.
A mysterious salamander known as the leopard eel has finally been formally recognized as a new species.
NASA has released the first ever recording of the wind buffeting a spacecraft on the surface of Mars.
China's latest space mission will, for the first time, see a spacecraft attempt to land on the Moon's far side.