Dutch scientists have replicated the soil on Mars to demonstrate that vegetables can be grown there.
The origins of a granite marker on an island in Massachusetts have remained a mystery for years.
Tim Peake, Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko touched down safely aboard their Soyuz capsule on Saturday.
Scientists have announced that they have picked up gravitational waves from two colliding black holes.
A large 20-pound chunk of ancient butter has been retrieved from a peat bog by a farmer in Ireland.
A 470 million-year-old meteorite has turned out to be quite unlike any that have been found before.
A man in Thailand returned home on Wednesday to find a huge monitor lizard trying to force its way in.
Scientists have calculated that it could be a long time indeed before we hear from intelligent aliens.
A Cambridge scientist maintains that there may be far more planets in the solar system than we realize.
Scientists have determined the processes which create spectacular lightning strikes during an eruption.
Astronomers have revealed the discovery of a Jupiter-sized exoplanet in a distant binary star system.
Researchers have revealed their latest findings on the enigmatic 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism.
Vanessa Oliver had already witnessed the object several times before finally recording it on her phone.
The alleged skeletal artifact appeared following an 'enhancement' of an image from the Curiosity rover.
NASA's latest interplanetary spacecraft will be entering in to orbit around Jupiter on July 4th.
Archaeologists using drone and satellite imagery have identified a massive new ceremonial platform.
New details have emerged about the mysterious crater which opened up in a remote part of Siberia in 2013.
Diamond miners have found a shipwreck laden with gold after draining a lagoon on Africa’s Skeleton Coast.
The final 100 candidates for the controversial Mars One mission are set to undergo more rigorous tests.
Firefighters in China were called out after the man got his head stuck while trying to conduct repairs.