One of Thomas Pesquet's first tasks aboard the space station wasn't quite what he was hoping for.
An eagle-eyed Internet user has spotted some peculiar pyramid-shaped structures on Google Earth.
The 'many interacting worlds' theory ties quantum physics to the idea of countless parallel universes.
Hints of an unknown species of human have been found in the DNA of the modern day Melanesian people.
Almost a century ago, 21 people were killed in Boston by a deadly and destructive tidal wave of syrup.
The man behind 'The Time Machine' and other literary classics also wrote an unpublished ghost story.
A Japanese scientist has revealed that eating the frozen dessert for breakfast boosts mental performance.
The specimen is the first near-complete dodo skeleton to go up for sale at auction in almost a century.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified an ice deposit with more water than Lake Superior.
NASA's 'impossible' propulsion system continues to intrigue as it receives its first peer-reviewed paper.
The 'Investigatory Powers Act' means that from now on, nothing you do or say online will ever be private.
An anonymous do-gooder sent shoppers in to a frenzy when he showered them with bank notes on Saturday.
The President-elect is hoping to send humans back to the Moon - and beyond - within the next few decades.
A remarkable new magnetic chess set enables the pieces to move around the board all by themselves.
Dino-a-Live will offer visitors the next best thing to real dinosaurs without the risk of being eaten.
A dog walker has uploaded footage of the ground wobbling up and down in a suburban Scottish park.
A controversial court ruling has made it possible for a young cancer patient to be frozen after death.
Thousands were left perplexed by the high-altitude aircraft which circled for about an hour on Wednesday.
It is looking increasingly likely that the dwarf planet is home to a vast subterranean ocean of water.
Three shipwrecks dating back to World War II have completely disappeared from the bottom of the Java Sea.