The iron-rich asteroid 16 Psyche is so valuable that, if mined, it would collapse the global economy.
Scientists have determined that 1,600-degree lava once surged to the surface in what is now Costa Rica.
They may be giants of the deep today, but blue whales only gained their huge size 2-3 million years ago.
80 years on from the disaster, the exact cause of the inferno that destroyed the airship remains unclear.
A selection of previously withheld documents about UFOs could be seeing a release in the near future.
Derek McLennan earned almost $2.6 million after unearthing a horde of 10th-century Viking artefacts.
Pupils and staff at Stanford Avenue Elementary were left perplexed by a bout of very strange weather.
The mysterious star has been puzzling astronomers for years due to its erratic, inexplicable behavior.
Pedestrians were left ducking for cover as the swarm descended on a crowded street earlier this week.
A 'cold spot' that has puzzled scientists for years could be the point where two universes collided.
Scientists have been trying to work out what the weather might be like on this recently discovered world.
Archaeologists have made a fascinating discovery inside a 3,800-year-old pyramid in Dahshur, Egypt.
Astronomers have been analyzing the atmosphere of a Neptune-sized planet located 430 light years away.
Far from being a modern phenomenon, antibiotic-resistant microbes have existed for millions of years.
Recent research has shown that massive waves can appear out of the blue with surprising regularity.
A stone tablet discovered 100 years ago in Babylon may confirm the existence of the Tower of Babel.
A police helicopter moved in to warn the group who had unwittingly ended up surrounded by great whites.
The recording, which was made when Kennedy was 20, has been released by archivists at Harvard University.
A crew of astronauts will spend a year in orbit around the Moon as a trial run for a mission to Mars.
A fossil found in China has finally been formally identified after more than a quarter of a century.