Efforts are underway in Iceland to find ways of turning the heat from volcanoes in to usable electricity.
The significant haul of new worlds includes a potentially habitable 'super-Earth' with a rocky surface.
A new mind-reading breakthrough has made it possible to communicate with completely locked-in patients.
A new study has added weight to the idea that microbes can survive in the harsh conditions on Mars.
The rover has come across what scientists believe to be an iron-nickel meteorite on the Martian surface.
NASA has released a new video recreating the Huygens probe's historic touchdown on Saturn's moon Titan.
An image of what has been described as a 'winged demon' has been uploaded by a user on Facebook.
A peculiar 151-mile-wide anomaly is believed to lie beneath a region of Antarctica known as Wilkes Land.
Recent advances in computer-brain interfaces could soon make brain-to-brain communication a reality.
Scientists have discovered a flow of liquid iron in the planet's core 3000km beneath the surface.
Geologists have been drilling a 5km borehole in to rocks measuring in excess of 500 degrees Celsius.
Scientists have put together a reconstruction of what the famous Scottish king would have looked like.
The world's tallest animal has suffered a worrying decline in numbers over the last three decades.
The bizarre spectacle occurred after a pipe burst and water from a drainage well rose to the surface.
Scientists believe that Mars is now so dry that any life forms would have to be living deep underground.
The unexpected extra was discovered in a photo taken during a recent tour of an abandoned hospital.
NASA's Curiosity rover has taken a closer look at an odd-looking meteorite lying on the surface of Mars.
It looks like the Schiaparelli lander slammed in to the Martian surface after its landing system failed.
The ExoMars mission's lander Schiaparelli has reached Mars but it is unclear whether or not it survived.
The new contest will see teams vying to create a robot that can be 'inhabited' and controlled remotely.