A new study has revealed that the muscles of children resist fatigue in the same way as those of elite athletes.
Hydrogen sulfide, which gives rotten eggs their smell, has been discovered in the seventh planet's atmosphere.
In a rare case of natural selection in modern humans, the free-diving Bajau people have developed a larger spleen.
An expedition crew is hoping to search the Antarctic sea floor for Sir Ernest Shackleton's vessel Endurance.
The accident marks the first time that a pedestrian has ever been killed by an autonomous vehicle.
Tech entrepreneur Jeff Bezos attended Amazon's annual MARS conference with a very unusual companion.
The Google co-founder's flying car start-up Kitty Hawk has created a two-person passenger drone called Cora.
The cabinet has officially responded to the question of whether or not UFOs pose a threat to national security.
The 58-year-old's extreme resistance to freezing temperatures has seen him break multiple world records.
New footage has been released showing the Space Launch System engine reaching 113 percent thrust level.
New data from the Hubble Space Telescope has shown that the universe is expanding faster than expected.
A new study has found that Neanderthals, not humans, created the world's oldest known cave paintings.
A man in India unexpectedly underwent a rare operation that has left him with two working, beating hearts.
A new image of the long-dead Phoenix lander on Mars has shown that it has become coated in a layer of dust.
Someone has been hanging underpants out across a village square in France and nobody seems to know why.
The way our ancestors hunted prey may have given them a significant advantage over the Neanderthals.
A code used by a Spanish king to communicate with his top military commander has finally been deciphered.
The eerily human-like robot has ditched her bald-headed android guise in favor of something more glamorous.
The 'Tolkienesque' landscape is made up of 26 underwater volcanoes buried beneath seabed sediment.
A university professor in Arizona is working on a system that can translate animal noises in to English.