The space agency has tasked private firms with the job of collecting and returning samples of soil from the Moon.
Palaeontologists have discovered what is thought to be the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon.
Forrest Fenn, who famously hid a cache of valuables in the Rocky Mountains, died on Monday at his home.
Astronomers in Australia have conducted the deepest and widest ever search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
New research suggests that some victims of the plague were buried face down to stop them rising from the dead.
Josef Koeberl broke his own world record after spending an insane amount of time buried in ice cubes.
Experts are attempting to solve the mystery of an unidentified man who washed up on the Isles of Scilly.
Back when the entire monument was intact, Stonehenge had some seriously impressive acoustics.
SETI has been searching for evidence of alien signals for decades, but what if we're using the wrong technology ?
As work on Elon Musk's prototype 'Starship' continues, the SpaceX CEO has highlighted the dangers of going to Mars.
A phenomenon that made headlines back in 2014 has resurfaced in the form of a new 164-foot crater in Siberia.
Retiree David Tait, who lives near Brisbane, Australia, played host to two unexpected visitors on Monday.
It turns out that more people than ever have been watching the skies during the coronavirus pandemic.
During the Bronze Age, our ancestors would sometimes turn the bones of their relatives into musical instruments.
Two pilots spotted the real-life Rocketeer while coming in to land at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday.
A freak accident saw a young girl being carried skyward by a large kite during a kite festival earlier today.
Wildlife researchers discovered three huge turtles - which belong to a new species - near Gainesville.
A new study has cast doubt on the prevailing theory of how our planet came to possess so much water.
This remarkable new image really does show a galaxy far, far away - 500 million light years away to be exact.
Fire is one of mankind's most fundamental technological discoveries - but just how long ago did we discover it ?