Transport authorities in the United Arab Emirates are hoping to offer an autonomous flying taxi service.
The legendary film director has made several movies exploring the themes of UFOs and extraterrestrials.
Fossilized droppings have revealed that some herbivorous dinosaurs occasionally snacked on seafood.
New evidence has shed light on exactly how huge stone blocks were transported to the site of the pyramids.
NASA's Juno probe has sent back four breathtaking new images of the gas giant's swirling atmosphere.
ESA's ambitious 'Moon village' plan could see humans living on the lunar surface within 25 years.
Former Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov made a decision in 1983 that may have saved the world.
A new study has suggested that sleep may actually be fundamental to all life, not just to animals.
An upcoming mission designed to test out the deflection of a large asteroid has hit a bit of a snag.
At the size of a beach ball, the monster-sized Beelzebufo ampinga was the largest frog that ever lived.
An unknown individual has been flushing thousands of euros down the toilet and nobody knows why.
Members of the gloomy octopus species have created their own underwater settlement dubbed 'Octlantis'.
Marine archaeologists unexpectedly stumbled across a goldmine of shipwrecks during a recent expedition.
50-year-old Ady Zivelonghi from Coventry has won the face-pulling contest for the second year in a row.
One biologist decided to take a hands-on approach to studying the powerful shock of an electric eel.
The crew of six NASA astronauts has been living in a dome near one of Hawaii's largest volcanoes.
Scientists have been working to solve one of the most enduring maritime mysteries of the modern age.
One of the greatest robotic space missions of all time has finally reached its inevitable conclusion.
The species, which has long teetered on the edge of extinction, is finally starting to make a comeback.
Allie Megan Webb came up with the peculiar concoction during a brainstorming session at her kitchen table.