A video showing a tree burning from the inside out while producing very little smoke has appeared online.
Land art and sculpture artist David Allen has captured footage of a peculiar natural phenomenon in Maine.
A gorilla who can speak sign language has appeared in a new video to raise awareness for climate change.
The claim that an ancient mobile phone has been unearthed in Austria has been doing the rounds online.
British astronaut Tim Peake dialed up an unsuspecting pensioner and said, 'hello, is this planet Earth ?'
A huge 1,500-year-old Viking fishing village site has been unearthed during excavations at an airport.
Our planet may be at higher risk from a large comet impact than from a conventional rocky asteroid.
New research has revealed that black holes can grow up to 50 billion times the mass of our sun.
Following on from Halloween's close encounter, another seasonal asteroid will soon be paying us a visit.
British legislation states that it is illegal to wear a full suit of armor in the Houses of Parliament.
Scientists have found evidence that a prehistoric species of human was still alive relatively recently.
The US Air Force is planning to equip its planes with high-tech laser weapons within only five years.
A remarkable new find has suggested that the Romans may have visited North America 2,000 years ago.
A potentially habitable terrestrial planet has been discovered in the relatively nearby Wolf 1061 system.
Residents in Barnaul have become so fed up with politicians that they've resorted to voting for a cat.
Festive revelers will be treated to a full moon this Christmas for the first time in almost four decades.
The Soyuz spacecraft has successfully arrived at the station following a tense manual docking maneuver.
Researchers investigating claims of a gold-filled train in a hidden tunnel in Poland have come up empty.
Researchers have identified what could be two new large planets in the outer reaches of our solar system.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is concerned that another world war could ruin efforts to send humans to Mars.