For the first time ever, South Africa's oldest known hominid skeleton has been unveiled to the public.
A newly discovered supermassive black hole is challenging what scientists know of the early universe.
A group of women visiting the attraction managed to capture something unusual in one of their photographs.
Visitors to China's Guishan Zoo found little more than some farm animals and a pen full of inflatable penguins.
The Google Brain project has created an AI that is capable of designing a 'child' AI superior to itself.
An animated GIF of a jumping pylon seems to create the illusion of sound even when there is none.
The incredible find has been teaching palaeontologists much about the lives of these ancient flying reptiles.
Belgian artist Mikes Poppe chained himself to the marble to highlight the 'inescapable burden of history'.
The new galaxies date back 13 billion years to a time shortly after the formation of the universe.
The arms of women who lived 7,000 years ago were stronger than those of today's elite Olympic rowers.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is now thought to date back more than 1,700 years.
The results of a recent experiment suggest that the soil on Mars is likely to be suitable for agriculture.
A man in India with suspected food poisoning was found to have 5kg of metal objects inside his stomach.
Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov has indicated that bacteria found on the space station could have come from space.
Anheuser-Busch, the company behind Budweiser beer, wants to create a beverage for people to drink on Mars.
Louisiana exterminator Jude Verret was called out recently to remove a truly monstrous nest of hornets.
Richard Browning stunned onlookers this week as he flew around a business park in Salford, England.
For the first time ever, it has been possible to directly observe one species evolving in to another.
One brown bear turned the tables on a Russian hunter earlier this month by stealing two of his firearms.
Sightings of a particularly unusual type of moth are becoming increasingly common across the British Isles.