Scientists developing Europe's new ExoMars rover are optimistic about its chances of finding life on Mars.
Netherlands-based firm SpaceLife Origin is aiming to make off-world reproduction a reality within six years.
Researchers from Florida International University have identified the first new species of crocodile in 85 years.
Archaeologists have discovered a tunnel and chamber hidden beneath the 2,000-year-old Pyramid of the Moon.
Daredevil climber Alain Robert has climbed up London's Heron Tower with no ropes or safety equipment.
Another intriguingly geometric iceberg has been spotted in Antarctica during an Operation IceBridge aerial survey.
An island in the remote Hawaiian archipelago was wiped off the face of the Earth by a storm earlier this month.
Enough oxygen could exist within salty subsurface water on Mars to support oxygen-breathing microbes.
The life-size replica of the ill-fated vessel will retrace the route taken by the original Titanic on its maiden voyage.
This remarkable video footage shows the forest floor moving up and down as though breathing in and out.
Boston Dynamics' increasingly sophisticated canine contraption has now learned how to dance.
The Turkish man reportedly made over 100 calls to the police per day, every day, for an entire year.
The wreck of a wooden vessel dating back 2,400 years has been found at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Several of the late physicist's scientific papers and possessions are to be sold at auction next week.
The 900-year-old trinket was unearthed at the site of a Viking farmstead in Iceland's Thjorsardalur valley.
The prehistoric remains of a mammoth and rhinoceros have been discovered near Cambridge, England.
This strangely geometric piece of ice was photographed by NASA off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf.
Experts in London have been attempting to decipher the writing on an ancient stone found in the 19th century.
NASA has revealed an unofficial list of new gamma ray constellations based on popular culture icons.
The ambitious new mission will see two satellites placed in to orbit around the closest planet to the Sun.