This new real-time graphics demo shows off an eerily ultra-realistic computer-generated Andy Serkis.
China's out-of-control Tiangong-1 space lab is now expected to fall to Earth over the Easter weekend.
One astronomer was left red-faced this week after he mistook the planet Mars for an undiscovered star.
The accident marks the first time that a pedestrian has ever been killed by an autonomous vehicle.
Known as Biostasis, the program aims to increase the odds of survival for injured soldiers on the battlefield.
Scientists have used modern scanning techniques to discover what thylacine infants really looked like.
A man who claims to have traveled back in time has made several predictions about the future.
The autonomous flying passenger drone has taken to the skies for the first time at a test site in Oregon.
The act of hitting tree trunks thousands of times may actually be giving woodpeckers brain damage.
The first test launch of Elon Musk's next generation rocket is set to take place in just over a week.
Astronauts who spend a lot of time in space are at risk of experiencing a rise in core body temperature.
For the first time, an artificial limb with a sense of touch has been built for use outside of the lab.
The DNA of microbes found on the International Space Station has been sequenced in space for the first time.
Scientists have discovered an entirely new phenomenon in fluid dynamics - pairs of connected whirlpools.
The space agency will be making an announcement on Thursday about its latest groundbreaking discovery.
For the first time ever, South Africa's oldest known hominid skeleton has been unveiled to the public.
Scientists have radiocarbon dated a small fragment of bone that may have belonged to Saint Nicholas.
The Google Brain project has created an AI that is capable of designing a 'child' AI superior to itself.
NASA has activated the iconic interstellar probe's backup thrusters for the first time in 37 years.
The new galaxies date back 13 billion years to a time shortly after the formation of the universe.