A world-famous sign situated near the secretive Area 51 facility has been taken down by local authorities.
Engineers at MIT have accidentally created a material 10 times blacker than anything that has come before.
A new species of electric eel found in the waters of the Amazon basin is capable of delivering up to 850 volts.
Erramatti Mangayamma has become the world's oldest mother after giving birth at the tender age of 74.
A vast library of more than 25,000 occult texts has been scanned and published on the Internet for free.
It may be possible to detect signs of extraterrestrial life on a distant world by picking up its biofluorescence.
The goliath frog is so ridiculously enormous that it is capable of building small ponds by moving rocks.
A boat skipper has captured a sonar image of something large lurking in the depths of the world-famous loch.
Elon Musk's private space firm has been developing a spacecraft capable of landing humans on other worlds.
A team of Spanish scientists working in China have injected human stem cells into the embryo of a monkey.
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a large, potentially habitable world in a nearby solar system.
The experimental project could one day make it possible for solar sails to propel spacecraft to other worlds.
Lifeboat officials in Scotland have warned social media users not to flock to the world famous loch en masse.
Eager to earn his place in the Guinness Book of Records, one Belgian man sat on a toilet for 116 hours.
The existence of algae high up in the Andes Mountains hints at the possibility of life on distant, icy worlds.
The UK's Jodrell Bank Observatory has been formally recognized as a Unesco World Heritage Site.
The annual event celebrates the UFO phenomenon and invites the general public to keep watching the skies.
The new worlds are so much like our own that both are now on a list of the 19 planets most likely to support life.
The world's most expensive painting - Salvator Mundi - mysteriously disappeared shortly after being sold.
A new paper from an Australian think tank has predicted that human society will collapse within 30 years.