The SpaceX CEO has been working towards his goal of seeing mankind become an interplanetary species.
Today marks the 55th anniversary of the escape of three men from the 'inescapable' Alcatraz prison.
Archaeologists have discovered the site of the Fugan Temple which was built around 1,000 years ago.
The refurbished Dragon capsule was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday.
Andrew Day had been visiting family when he encountered four squirrels with their tails tied together.
Known as Solar Probe Plus, the mission will be officially revealed in an announcement on Wednesday.
An extremely loud bang managed to wake up half the city when it shook houses at 3am on Sunday morning.
They may be giants of the deep today, but blue whales only gained their huge size 2-3 million years ago.
The two-hour spacewalk, which is set to take place on Tuesday, will aim to repair a broken data relay box.
Norway's Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been breached by water flooding in through the entrance.
Emergency services were called out in Florida on Tuesday to attend a rather unusual incident.
Last year the Slims river totally vanished in what is thought to be a modern case of 'river piracy'.
A new study has linked a prehistoric population of mammoth hunters with some of today's tallest people.
The space agency will be holding a press briefing on Thursday about 'the search for life beyond Earth'.
A new facility for archiving some of the world's most important documents has opened in the Arctic.
It may one day be possible for over-65s to visit a clinic every few years to receive a rejuvenation shot.
People from several towns across the country reported witnessing the spectacle at 9:30pm on Monday night.
The US Air Force's mysterious space plane is on track to break the mission duration record of 674 days.
In a world first, researchers have managed to create artificial embryos using the stem cells of mice.
This newly described species of penguin is thought to have walked the Earth over 60 million years ago.