Astronaut Tim Kopra made the record-breaking pass aboard the space station to mark the 2017 Super Bowl.
An independent investigation in to the long-running mystery has managed to dig up an important new clue.
Archaeologists believe that they have located the site of a lost kingdom dating back to the Dark Ages.
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile will soon be seeking out habitable worlds around Alpha Centauri.
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.
A scientist has offered up a series of predictions about what life will be like in the next 30 years.
Teams from Russia and South Korea are working together to bring the extinct species back to life.
China claims that it is currently testing the 'impossible' space engine on the Tiangong 2 space station.
Researchers at the University of Bristol have found cooking pot fragments dating back over 10,000 years.
A warning has gone out to motorists to beware of moose licking the salt off the side of their cars.
A large hole in the King Baudoin ice shelf has challenged what we know of the East Antarctic ice sheet.
Professor Stephen Hawking has teamed up with NASA to design and develop an interstellar nano-starship.
Scientists have put together a reconstruction of what the famous Scottish king would have looked like.
Scientists at Princeton University have simulated what an English-speaking macaque would sound like.
A strange-looking invertebrate has been spotted by a deep-sea ROV over a century after its discovery.
A groundbreaking new study suggests that scientists have underestimated the impact of climate change.
It is looking increasingly likely that the dwarf planet is home to a vast subterranean ocean of water.
A surveillance plane has been looking in to reports of a 'pinging' sound in the Fury and Hecla Strait.
NASA's Curiosity rover has taken a closer look at an odd-looking meteorite lying on the surface of Mars.