Professor Brian Cox maintains that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations may inevitably self-destruct.
The spirit of a boy who was killed in a riding accident in 1885 has allegedly been sighted many times.
Undersea explorer Barry Clifford believes that he has located a huge, long-lost pirate treasure trove.
Scientists believe that a nearby extrasolar planet is 'likely' to be capable of supporting alien life.
The peculiar sighting is just one of several to have been reported over the Russian capital recently.
Two Silicon Valley billionaires are funding efforts to prove whether or not we live in a simulation.
ESA's two-part ExoMars spacecraft is comprised of both the Trace Gas Orbiter and the Schiaparelli lander.
A new study has shown that our primate cousins may be able to tell what's going on in each other's heads.
The popular mobile phone game has been turning up everywhere and has even managed to influence politics.
A new study has suggested that humans may be limited to a maximum lifespan of around 115 years.
The new contest will see teams vying to create a robot that can be 'inhabited' and controlled remotely.
New research has suggested that another of Saturn's moons is home to a subsurface ocean of liquid water.
A painting believed to be the work of Italian painter Raphael has been found in an 18th-century home.
Three British physicists have been awarded a Nobel Prize for their work on strange forms of matter.
Kirobo Mini is designed to act a lot like a small child and is intended to help keep people company.
Remember that time a giant octopus dragged a ferry to its doom off Staten Island ? No, neither do we.
It's a sad day for conservationists as the last known Rabbs' tree frog has died in captivity in Atlanta.
The United Nations has revealed that it will be launching a global collaborative spaceflight project.
The species most notorious for killing its own in cold blood is perhaps not what you might expect.
A new study seems to have confirmed that some of us may simply be destined to die younger than our peers.