Stephen Hawking is hoping to send a space probe to a potentially habitable world around Alpha Centauri.
A mass extinction event 200 million years ago made it possible for the dinosaurs to dominate the planet.
The pilot who famously reported witnessing the 1997 Phoenix Lights was actually actor Kurt Russell.
The futuristic humanoid contraption is being designed to operate autonomously on the surface of Mars.
A couple in the Scottish Borders have struggled to find a nanny that will stay in their 'haunted' home.
Authorities at the Round Rock Parks and Recreation Department have published some intriguing pictures.
Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has managed to sever and reconnect the spinal cords of nine mice.
The SpaceX CEO has been working towards his goal of seeing mankind become an interplanetary species.
Discovered off the coast of the Netherlands, the specimen is the first of its kind ever found.
New evidence has suggested that all the sunlike stars in the universe may have formed together in pairs.
The Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia has uploaded a new video clip to its YouTube channel.
New research has suggested that we can actually taste water and that it has a distinctly sour flavor.
The so-called 'first nation state in space' is about to make its first foray in to the final frontier.
A puzzled motorist recently recorded footage of a riderless motorcycle cruising along a French motorway.
When it comes to extremely long-lived life forms, trees and plants beat animals hands down every time.
Police have revealed that the distress signal was genuine and that it was left in the outback in 2013.
The incredibly well-preserved hatchling is believed to date back 99 million years to the Cretaceous Era.
Wildlife authorities have been investigating the recent sighting of an ape-like creature in California.
The discovery casts doubt on the idea that modern humans evolved in a single 'cradle of humanity'.
Astronomers have observed a distant white dwarf star shifting the position of another star in the sky.