The Virgin Galactic founder is aiming to be a passenger aboard the first commercial launch of SpaceShipTwo.
A man who took home a piece of Australia's famous Ayers Rock believes that he has fallen under its curse.
The long-lost 300-year-old Spanish galleon was found with the help of an autonomous underwater vehicle.
Scientists still struggle to understand how hiccups start and why certain cures work better than others.
The spacecraft blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard an Atlas V rocket earlier today.
Authorities in Calgary have been investigating the mysterious death of a man found in a public lavatory.
The 'Little Boy' nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 ended the lives of tens of thousands of civilians.
Contrary to our understanding of star formation, large stars don't appear to form the same way as smaller ones.
The Australian government has pledged a large sum of money in an effort to save the dying natural wonder.
The largest artificial rain experiment ever undertaken will aim to induce extra rainfall over the Tibetan Plateau.
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.