A bright fireball was spotted spiralling down from the heavens over the Cambridgeshire area earlier this week.
A bizarre new scheme has seen volunteers dress up as ghosts to scare people into staying inside their homes.
Scientists have found a way to determine how old whale sharks are using the fallout from atomic bomb testing.
A new plan to build a telescope on the Moon will make our lunar neighbor look like the Star Wars battle station.
The original design for the iconic statue featured a much larger and more robust torch-bearing arm.
NASA's High-Resolution Coronal Imager has captured new high-resolution images of the Sun's atmosphere.
Low pollution levels due to the coronavirus lockdown have revealed views not seen in several decades.
A very strange optical illusion showing what looks like a floating wheelie bin has recently gone viral online.
The Humboldt squid has evolved a novel solution to the problem of communicating in the depths of the ocean.
The impressive lunar spectacle will see the Moon appear bigger and brighter than at any other time this year.
It might be a freezing wasteland today, but in the past Antarctica was covered in lush swamps and forests.
The urine of the first lunar settlers could be used as a construction material to help build new structures.
Planets with two suns like Luke Skywalker's homeworld may be as common as planets orbiting a solitary star.
As the world struggles to contain the ouutbreak, scientists are looking for volunteers to help them develop a vaccine.
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured a panorama made up of over 1,000 images of the Martian surface.
Scientists may have finally determined what might be behind this mysterious, invisible form of matter.
The discovery of a large feline print in the Blue Mountains has reignited speculation of a mystery big cat.
Scientists have determined what it was that made the fiercest Viking warriors so fearless and ferocious.
This humbling image of our world taken from far away has been honored this week with a modern remaster.
A Dutch oceanographer has suggested building two gigantic dams as a solution to rising sea levels.