Scientists have discovered microbial life rebounding in one of the driest and most inhospitable places on Earth.
The remarkably resilient rover has managed to extend its original three-month mission to over 13 years.
A man in India unexpectedly underwent a rare operation that has left him with two working, beating hearts.
The well-preserved gloves were discovered during the excavation of a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall.
A solitary tree on an island in New Zealand may hold the key to determining the beginning of the Anthropocene.
Scientists have indicated that the famous storm could blow itself away within the next 10 to 20 years.
It is believed that plants first arose on land 100 million years earlier than previous studies had suggested.
The son of a man who found a message in a bottle 60 years ago is now searching for the author's relatives.
A renewed hunt for Earth-like worlds has yielded a haul of 95 previously undiscovered extrasolar planets.
The research aims to solve donor organ shortages by making it possible to grow human organs inside sheep.
Researchers believe that humanity would be more likely to welcome than fear the discovery of alien life.
Hair belonging to the first ever President of the United States has been found in an 18th-century almanac.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe has captured a stunning new image of the Earth against the blackness of space.
NASA's New Horizons probe has made history again by capturing images 3.79 billion miles from the Earth.
The space rock known as 'Oumuamua is thought to have been tumbling around chaotically for billions of years.
The way our ancestors hunted prey may have given them a significant advantage over the Neanderthals.
New footage has emerged showing a large chunk of ice narrowly missing pedestrians on a London street.
A forensic expert has cast doubt on a 1940s analysis of bones found on a remote island over 70 years ago.
A miniature UFO that allegedly crashed in Yorkshire in 1957 has been rediscovered inside a museum archive.
Scientists have used microlensing to discover planets in a galaxy over 3.8 billion light years away.