One of Thomas Pesquet's first tasks aboard the space station wasn't quite what he was hoping for.
An eagle-eyed Internet user has spotted some peculiar pyramid-shaped structures on Google Earth.
Scientists have finally determined exactly what caused the Schiaparelli probe to crash-land on Mars.
The specimen is the first near-complete dodo skeleton to go up for sale at auction in almost a century.
An anonymous do-gooder sent shoppers in to a frenzy when he showered them with bank notes on Saturday.
The President-elect is hoping to send humans back to the Moon - and beyond - within the next few decades.
A faulty fire suppression system managed to submerge a large area under a sea of white foam on Friday.
A remarkable new magnetic chess set enables the pieces to move around the board all by themselves.
Dino-a-Live will offer visitors the next best thing to real dinosaurs without the risk of being eaten.
It is looking increasingly likely that the dwarf planet is home to a vast subterranean ocean of water.
Three shipwrecks dating back to World War II have completely disappeared from the bottom of the Java Sea.
64 years ago, a thick blanket of smog covered the city of London and killed more than 12,000 people.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the fossil remains of a gigantic Cretaceous-era ocean predator.
Being high up above the planet didn't stop astronaut Shane Kimbrough from casting his vote last week.
Two young boys in Pakistan literally 'power down' after the sun sets and can only move during the day.
Suffering from iron deficiency ? Try dining on a few cooked grasshoppers, crickets and buffalo worms.
Secret tunnels have been discovered beneath the stage of William Shakespeare's Curtain Theater in London.
Both modern day and historical prophets may have foreseen the Republican candidate's rise to power.
Residents were left shocked after a massive metal cylinder plummeted from the heavens on Thursday.
Scientists have spotted X-rays trickling from the dwarf planet despite there being no obvious source.