It turns out that spiders are able to stay airborne over vast distances using the Earth's natural electric fields.
NASA's $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe will be venturing closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history.
Remarkable new footage shows a white-faced capuchin using a stone as a hammer to break open nuts to eat.
A police station in India's Jharkhand state is reportedly so haunted that everyone leaves by 11pm every night.
Bystanders ran for cover as a freak gust sent two toilets flying through the air at a park in Colorado this week.
This remarkable footage shows a seemingly enormous Moon disappearing rapidly beneath the horizon.
A recently released photograph appears to confirm the existence of a secretive Chinese drone project.
81-year-old David Harding was 'mortified' to discover what looked like a dead shark in a large test tube.
Scientists have identified a 500-mile-long ocean corridor used by large numbers of sharks and other animals.
A recent study aimed to find out how marine park dolphins actually felt about their life in captivity.
Mark Egerton from Southhoe, England, has spent more than four decades investigating the paranormal.
Visitors to a US state park in Utah have been inadvertently destroying fossil dinosaur footprints.
A remarkable new video shows what the inside of your mouth looks like when you have a conversation.
Dylan McWilliams defied the odds after being attacked by all three animals within the space of just three years.
Hashtag-like etchings found on a rock in South Africa's Blombos Cave are thought to be over 100,000 years old.
The ambitious BioGenome Project aims to sequence and store the genomes of more than 1.5 million species.
The wreckage of one of Germany's most advanced U-boats has been discovered off the coast of Denmark.
This remarkable dome of churning molten magma was photographed in Hawaii by the US Geological Survey.
The discovery raises new questions about the formation of galaxies and the nature of dark matter.
The accident marks the first time that a pedestrian has ever been killed by an autonomous vehicle.