Recent research has shown that massive waves can appear out of the blue with surprising regularity.
A police helicopter moved in to warn the group who had unwittingly ended up surrounded by great whites.
Improbable is the latest startup hoping to change the world by embracing virtual reality technology.
Scientists have revealed the extent of the volcanic activity that is occurring on Jupiter's moon Io.
The recording, which was made when Kennedy was 20, has been released by archivists at Harvard University.
A crew of astronauts will spend a year in orbit around the Moon as a trial run for a mission to Mars.
Researchers have unveiled details of their latest findings at an important cave site in South Africa.
Researchers at DARPA want to make it possible for a soldier to be trained in a fraction of the time.
Cassini's second dive between Saturn and its innermost ring has yielded more breathtaking photographs.
The US Air Force's mysterious space plane has landed in Florida after spending nearly two years in orbit.
Scientists at NASA have been drawing up plans for the demolition of the International Space Station.
A beach that was stripped of its sand three decades ago has suddenly been restored to its former glory.
A new experimental project is aiming to generate electricity by harnessing the power of volcanoes.
An impending water shortage in the United Arab Emirates has called for a rather extraordinary solution.
A man named after one of the most infamous movie villains of all time works at a hospital in Tennessee.
There are now only eleven usable EMU spacesuits left and new ones won't be available for several years.
It has been revealed that the controversial operation will no longer involve patient Valery Spiridonov.
Professor Stephen Hawking is making a documentary about humanity's need to colonize other worlds.
One of the largest ever species of plant-eating dinosaur has been discovered at a museum in Switzerland.
The private space firm succeeded in sending a top secret US military satellite in to orbit this morning.