NASA scientists are considering whether or not to send their lightweight robotic helicopter drone to Mars.
The World Health Organization has highlighted the potential danger of a deadly, as-yet-unknown pathogen.
Authorities have been left perplexed following reports of a loud boom and a flash of light on Wednesday night.
The US government is funding a new experimental aircraft known as the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator.
Scientists have used microlensing to discover planets in a galaxy over 3.8 billion light years away.
The world's most powerful rocket has successfully blasted off in to the heavens on its first test flight.
The ship tasked with locating the wreck of flight MH370 went dark for several days and nobody knows why.
The autonomous flying passenger drone has taken to the skies for the first time at a test site in Oregon.
100 million-year-old dinosaur and mammal tracks have been found at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
A US-based exploration firm is set to begin hunting for the whereabouts of the missing plane's wreckage.
More than 200 years after his death, the mystery of J.P. Radan Muller's final resting place endures.
Researchers have used graphene to create a material that is ultra-lightweight but also bulletproof.
The mission would involve traveling 4.3 light years at around ten per cent of the speed of light.
Blue Origin has released new footage recorded from inside its space capsule during a recent test flight.
By embedding nanoparticles in leaves, scientists at MIT have created plants that glow in the dark.
Police are appealing for information after a pensioner inexplicably burst in to flames in broad daylight.
Belgian artist Mikes Poppe chained himself to the marble to highlight the 'inescapable burden of history'.
A time-lapse camera captured the moment an intense fireball streaked across the sky over Lapland.
Situated just 11 light years away, Ross 128 b is shaping up to be a promising place to look for life.
Sierra Nevada has announced that its Dream Chaser spaceplane has completed a critical free-flight test.