An extremely rare form of cave-dwelling salamander has emerged from its egg in Slovenia's Postojna cave.
ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has made a significant new discovery within the atmosphere of its new home.
A real-life version of Fred Flintstone's vehicle was slapped with a parking ticket in Key West this week.
A new study has suggested that the universe is likely to be teeming with extraterrestrial life forms.
The iconic volcano used in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy has had its eruption alert elevated.
A strange circular pocket of super-salty water has been discovered 3,300ft below the surface of the sea.
A full-size replica of the biblical vessel will be paying a visit to the Olympic Games later this year.
A new video has been released showing a demonstration of the remarkably impressive Flyboard Air device.
30 years on, Scandinavia is still suffering from the after-effects of the world's worst nuclear disaster.
Researchers have revealed the most likely reason why the enigmatic order had such a high life expectancy.
In a world first, researchers have managed to successfully thaw a cryonically frozen rabbit brain.
A comet bombardment that occurred on Mars 3.9 billion years ago may have created habitable conditions.
The SETI Institute is aiming to find evidence of aliens in a place where nobody had thought to look.
Scientists are developing special software that can work out just how long someone is likely to live.
The eerily realistic female humanoid robot has been designed to look, act and speak like a real person.
A man wearing a ridiculously life-like dinosaur costume managed to scare more than a few passers-by.
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) successfully launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan this morning.
Europe and Russia are launching a joint mission next week to land a spacecraft on the surface of Mars.
The realistic four-legged robot met its match when it came face-to-face with its real-life counterpart.
The woolly mammoth is not the only prehistoric beast that modern science could bring back to life.