The Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile will soon be seeking out habitable worlds around Alpha Centauri.
A team of researchers at MIT have designed a new super-strong and lightweight 3D form of graphene.
A previously unknown asteroid dubbed 2017 AG13 passed between the Earth and the Moon yesterday.
A new experiment has revealed just how gently the world's largest land animal can pick things up.
Fillings could soon become a thing of the past thanks to a drug that can regrow and repair cavities.
Scientists have found a way to identify the DNA of our ancestors from prehistoric bone dust samples.
Known as Lucy and Psyche, the new spacecraft will be studying two relics of the early solar system.
The Scandinavian monarch maintains that her residence, Drottningholm Palace, is inhabited by ghosts.
A storm off the coast of Germany has strewn large numbers of Kinder eggs all along the shoreline.
A worryingly large rift in one of the Antarctic's biggest ice shelves has been continuing to grow.
The newly declassified video was filmed by a military helicopter that encountered a UFO while on patrol.
A new study has suggested that it would not take long for a zombie apocalypse to wipe out mankind.
A new Ministry of Defence project is aiming to test out the benefits of 'directed energy' technology.
An image of what has been described as a 'winged demon' has been uploaded by a user on Facebook.
A budget of $188 million has been assigned to the new mission which will be launching within three years.
Researchers have developed a new device capable of identifying a whole host of different conditions.
A scientist has offered up a series of predictions about what life will be like in the next 30 years.
The private space firm is planning to begin launching satellites again following last year's explosion.
The mesentery is found inside the digestive system and has only now been identified as a single organ.
A new theory has suggested that the dinosaurs became extinct because they couldn't hatch quickly enough.