Scientists have used a new computer simulation to find out if nuking an asteroid could actually save us from catastrophe.
The object, that had somehow ended up in a very unfortunate place, had left the man in 'extreme discomfort'.
Another potentially habitable world has been discovered thanks to data collected by the Kepler Space Telescope.
The world of time reflections is a strange one - imagine looking in a mirror and seeing the back of your head...
The mysterious extrasolar world was spotted with the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
76-year-old billionaire Tim Boyle has challenged flat Earthers to take a photo of the void at the edge of the world.
Rosanna Hanness is one of a quite sizable group of people who believe that they are literal aliens from another world.
The enormous webbed structure is thought to contain more than 111,000 individual spiders.
Situated just 18.2 light-years away, this newfound extrasolar world is in orbit around a red dwarf star.
The World Federation of Legendary Monsters will aim to solve some of the world's biggest monster mysteries.
Another world relatively close to home is now thought to be a promising place to look for signs of alien life.
The breakthrough could soon make it possible for human babies to be born without a biological mother.
Scientists have discovered evidence of methane gas on Makemake - a tiny world situated beyond the orbit of Pluto.
A firm in China has developed human-like faces for robots that are eerily realistic and capable of expressing emotions.
The annual prize is awarded to some of the weirdest and wackiest science projects around the world.
The previously unreleased footage shows Robert Wadlow - officially the tallest man ever recorded.
Croatian freediver Vitomir Maricic succeeded in setting a new Guinness World Record for the insane stunt.
The eye-opening project could provide the world's first robot capable of growing and 'giving birth' to a human baby.
A prize-winning, hypothetical spacecraft could be the key to enabling humans to colonize distant worlds.
A new survey carried out on the 100th anniversary of modern quantum mechanics has revealed deep uncertainties.