The successful test saw the enormous booster put out a staggering 3.6 million pounds of thrust.
The feeling of an unseen presence during life-threatening situations is not as uncommon as it sounds.
Scientists have argued that a nearby Earth-like world dismissed as 'noise' is actually a real planet.
The spacecraft is now set to spend the next 16 months studying the largest object in the asteroid belt.
During the 1960s athlete Reg Spiers came up with an ingenious way to get home after running out of money.
The discovery has pushed back the emergence of the earliest humans by up to 400,000 years.
Virgin Money is offering a variety of bizarre insurance policies covering a range of unlikely scenarios.
The early domestication of wolves by modern humans may have tipped the balance in our favor.
The bleeding edge bomber remains shrouded in secrecy and its costs may be spiraling out of control.
Archaeologists have identified the 1st century house in which Jesus was believed to have been brought up.
Authorities in France are attempting to determine who has been flying drones over the country's capital.
The rover's instruments have picked up unequivocal evidence that there really is methane on Mars.
Residents have been going out at night wearing protective headgear following a spate of owl attacks.
NASA has revealed that another mysterious bright spot has been discovered on the dwarf planet's surface.
Police are attempting to find out who built an elaborate tunnel near the venue for the Pan Am Games.
The novel new beauty treatment is being marketed as a way to eat chocolate that is actually good for you.
Living a lifetime without the ability to feel pain is actually more of an inconvenience that it sounds.
A sophisticated remote operated crime-busting robot could soon be found patrolling the streets.
A red dwarf star is thought to have passed within one light year of our planet 70,000 years ago.
Limpet teeth are the strongest biological material known to exist anywhere in the world.