A budget of $188 million has been assigned to the new mission which will be launching within three years.
A man in Germany reportedly got up on Monday morning to find that someone had bricked up his front door.
The private space firm is planning to begin launching satellites again following last year's explosion.
The impressive spectacle was caught on camera over the erupting Turrialba volcano in Costa Rica.
Ed Whitlock recently broke the world record by completing a marathon in just under four hours.
Curiosity has discovered minerals from over several million years of the Red Planet's geological history.
Teams from Russia and South Korea are working together to bring the extinct species back to life.
The final minute of the final hour of December 31st, 2016 will be 61, rather than 60 seconds long.
The United Nations will be addressing the threat posed by sophisticated autonomous weapons platforms.
An organization in San Francisco is planning to send messages out to potentially habitable planets.
Military amputees are to be among the first to benefit from DARPA's revolutionary new prosthetic arm.
Conservationists have warned that the world's fastest land animal is on the verge of being wiped out.
A particular large Australian fur seal was seen this week wandering up a street and climbing on to cars.
Archaeologists have unveiled a hidden wall that may indicate the presence of nearby pharaonic tombs.
Being 250 miles above the Earth hasn't stopped the space station crew from joining in with the festivities.
Scientists have detected a further six mystery radio bursts originating from outside of our galaxy.
Some young meat-eating dinosaurs lost their teeth as they grew up and ended up becoming plant-eaters.
Scientists have discovered a flow of liquid iron in the planet's core 3000km beneath the surface.
A giant bipedal robot that looks like something out of the movie 'Avatar' has been unveiled this month.
A mysterious metallic sound recorded by researchers could actually be a never-before-heard whale call.