The planet, which is much too big for its star, defies our current understanding of planetary formation.
The Mars 2020 rover will be equipped with a wide assortment of cameras for surveying the Red Planet.
Scientists believe that extraterrestrial life is likely to have a lot in common with life on Earth.
A forensic artist has pieced together the appearance of a woman who was once imprisoned for witchcraft.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the fossil remains of an 18ft sea monster dating back to the Jurassic Era.
Beachgoers in the UK have reported seeing dozens of the cephalopods crawling across the sand.
The space agency has put together a compilation of spooky audio clips from its robotic space missions.
Researchers have been able to trace the first ever recorded solar eclipse back to the time of the pharaohs.
NASA has revealed some of the results of its recent experiment involving twins Scott and Mark Kelly.
50-year-old Nikki Love managed to run an entire marathon every single day for more than two months.
Newly resurfaced footage from the 1930s shows the remarkable life of Mickey the Minneapolis fire cat.
A British newspaper received a strange phone call a mere 25 minutes before Kennedy's assassination.
For the first time ever, astronomers have spotted what is thought to be a visitor from a distant star system.
Astronomers have observed an extrasolar planet with some of the weirdest weather conditions ever seen.
Tom Morgan managed to reach a height of 8,000ft by attaching helium balloons to a camping chair.
An enormous meat-eating dinosaur measuring up to 30ft in length once roamed what is now Southern Africa.
Scientists have captured footage of arctic jellyfish slithering along the bottom of the Chukchi Sea.
Planetary scientist Alan Stern has suggested that some civilizations may live below a planet's surface.
Marine archaeologists have discovered the earliest known example of an astrolabe navigation tool.
Albert Einstein's handwritten notes on the secret to living a happy life have resurfaced after 95 years.