The Parkes radio telescope has been turned towards our nearest neighbor to listen out for signs of life.
NASA and FEMA officials got together last month to respond to a hypothetical doomsday asteroid scenario.
Scientists studying bonobos reveal that it is not only humans who suffer from diminishing eyesight.
The controversial author of 'Chariots of the Gods' predicts that aliens will return within 20 years.
An unusual natural phenomenon in Siberia has covered an 11-mile stretch of beach with huge snowballs.
The private space firm has finally figured out what caused its rocket to explode back in September.
The bones of a castaway found on a Pacific island in the 1940s could be those of the famed aviator.
A surveillance plane has been looking in to reports of a 'pinging' sound in the Fury and Hecla Strait.
NASA's Curiosity rover has taken a closer look at an odd-looking meteorite lying on the surface of Mars.
Experts have warned that SpaceX's plan to fuel rockets while astronauts are on board could prove fatal.
Scientists have found a way to transform regular spinach plants in to highly effective bomb detectors.
Two Canadian astronomers have found possible signs that an alien civilization is trying to communicate.
If an astronaut dies in space, could their body eventually go on to spread microbes to other planets ?
A team of designers from the Netherlands have somehow managed to reinvent the humble staircase.
A large planet lurking in the outer solar system could be causing the sun's rotational axis to tilt.
Seven decades ago, scientists in new Mexico took the first ever pictures of our planet from outer space.
Russian scientists have located a secret Nazi facility that was abandoned before the end of World War II.
Forget haggis - Neolithic Scots living on the islands may have once had an appetite for the humble vole.
The ExoMars mission's lander Schiaparelli has reached Mars but it is unclear whether or not it survived.
A world powered by practically limitless, clean energy is now one step closer to becoming a reality.