It's not just human offenders who face a prison sentence for committing a crime in some parts of the world.
A new type of flying reptile from the age of the dinosaurs has been unearthed in the Andes mountains.
A recently published video clip shows a huge gorilla tenderly petting a tiny groundhog at Detroit Zoo.
Former Minuteman commander Robert Salas maintains that he reported the incident to the UFO task force last year.
The space probe, which landed in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars in 2018, is now in its final months.
An innocuous snap of a delivery robot wandering through some woodland has been gaining a lot of attention on Twitter.
A meat packing plant worker recently captured footage of an unidentified object falling from the heavens.
The unfortunate woman ended up needing to be rescued after reaching into the toilet to grab her dropped phone.
Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has suggested that some interstellar meteorites could be artificial in nature.
Plans to beam Earth's location out into space could have unintended consequences, an Oxford scientist has warned.
Palaeontologists believe that they may have found one of the victims of the extinction event that ended the dinosaurs.
The rover, which landed on Mars over a year ago, has set eyes on parts of its own landing system for the first time.
New research into what happens when we die has yielded some interesting data about near-death experiences.
Many fragile 19th-Century wax cylinders contain audio recordings that have, until now, been impossible to listen to.
The James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors are now aligned and scientists are very impressed with the result.
A 32-year-old man has ended up marrying three identical triplets after all three of them fell in love with him.
A jogger recently came across this indescribable creature and nobody seems to know what on Earth it is.
A road in the UK has become so warped that parts of it are now sitting at a 45-degree angle.
New research has highlighted our susceptibility to believing anything that certain sources say.
Officials in Australia have announced that the wreck has been conclusively identified, but others are not so sure.