Three new species of scarab beetle have received names worthy of the 'mother of dragons' herself.
China's Chang'e 4 spacecraft has made history by being the first ever to touch down on the far side of the Moon.
Exploratory vehicles equipped with artificial intelligence could open up the surface of Mars like never before.
Hidden 4,000ft beneath the surface of the ice, Lake Mercer remains a tantalizing target for investigation.
Back in the 1950s, scientists in the UK developed a nuclear mine that required live chickens to work properly.
NASA's long-lived space probe has managed to pull off the most distant flyby of an object ever undertaken.
A new theory has suggested that the incident was in fact a revenge plot orchestrated by British special forces.
Four decades ago, multiple UFO sightings were reported over the Kaikoura mountains on South Island.
A popular YouTube content creator from Pakistan was killed after a ghost scare prank went horribly wrong.
Following on from its historic flyby of Pluto in 2015, the probe will reach its next destination on New Year's Day.
The youngster called up the police on Christmas Day because he didn't like the snow pants he'd received.
Amalapuram residents were left scratching their heads recently after fish started to rain down from above.
The woman and her husband had been driving near Sandy Hook when they saw something in the road.
One of the three astronauts who flew to the Moon aboard Apollo 8 has criticized efforts to land humans on Mars.
In January 2015, a young boy who fell through the ice of a frozen lake was revived almost an hour later.
One of the cosmonauts who investigated the hole maintains that it was drilled from inside the capsule.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has provided a sneak peak of the firm's prototype interplanetary Starship spacecraft.
Last year, scientists in Lithuania created a nativity scene that was so small it could fit in to the eye of a needle.
A mile-long asteroid shaped a bit like a hippopotamus has skipped us by on its closest approach in 400 years.
Letters to Santa written by children during the late 19th and early 20th centuries have been revealed on Twitter.