China's burgeoning space program is set to attempt something that nobody has ever tried before.
The X-37B will be launching again on Wednesday however nobody knows exactly what it will be doing.
The approaching spacecraft has snapped photographs of what appears to be polar ice on the dwarf planet.
A sparrow-sized flying dinosaur with wings resembling those of a bat has been unearthed by scientists.
Several dozen fossilized eggs were discovered by builders carrying out repairs at the side of a road.
Adventurer Alex Bellini will live inside a special survival pod on top of an iceberg in Greenland.
A new report has urged the United Nations to ban 'killer robots' before countries start to develop them.
Geologists have been investigating a glowing orange hole that opened up on a Chinese mountain.
New research suggests that the human chin may have resulted from our ability to cook and soften food.
Louis Jordan's family had feared the worst after he disappeared off the coast of South Carolina.
Li Yanzhi succeeded in memorizing an entire English-Chinese dictionary containing 220,000 words.
A new census has revealed that the number of giant pandas living in the wild has risen by 17 percent.
Scientists have been left scratching their heads over a 1,000km plume spotted high above the planet Mars.
The ill-fated spacecraft disappeared without a trace after reaching Mars more than ten years ago.
Several big names have signed a letter aimed at ensuring that AI research remains beneficial to mankind.
The Indian Science Congress drew criticism this week over a lecture about 7,000-year-old airplanes.
Archaeologists have long pondered over the strange disappearance of the ancient Sanxingdu civilization.
Our species developed more fragile bones when our ancestors switched from hunting to agriculture.
A species of warbler was observed evacuating its nest one day in advance of an approaching tornado.
Researchers found the arachnids within less than a single square mile of the Xishuangbanna rainforest.