The ambitious new mission will see two satellites placed in to orbit around the closest planet to the Sun.
A fossil belonging to one of the world's earliest known flesh-eating fish has been unearthed in Germany.
A record-breaking 80,000-year-old clonal colony of aspen trees in central Utah is in danger of being wiped out.
Four gargantuan planets have been observed orbiting a relatively young star approximately 500 light years away.
A rock used to prop open a door for more than 30 years has been identified as a rare type of meteorite.
The infamous Utah property has seen more than its fair share of strange occurrences over the last 50 years.
A mere two months after beginning operations, NASA's TESS spacecraft has found two new extrasolar worlds.
A new study has cast further light on a mystery fossil that scientists say is as 'strange as life on another planet'.
The final resting place of one of the world's most famous ships has reportedly been found after 240 years.
One stretch of the M6 motorway in England has gained something of a haunted reputation in recent years.
Traces of beer dating back more than 13,000 years have been found in a cave near the Israeli city of Haifa.
The photograph, which was posted on Reddit, shows a car with so much shine that it appears almost invisible.
The elephant bird, along with some of Madagascar's other megafauna, went extinct around 1,000 years ago.
Hundreds of mummified penguins dating back up to 750 years were found in Antarctica's Long Peninsula in 2016.
The discovery of ancient cheese sieves has pushed back the origins of cheese making in the Mediterranean.
A Mayan pictographic text dating back over 900 years has finally been confirmed as authentic by researchers.
For the first time in 50 years, an astronaut has voluntarily stepped down in the middle of the training program.
A new study has determined how a volcanic eruption 205 million years ago wiped out 90 percent of all life on Earth.
An alligator named Muja, who lives in Belgrade Zoo, is considered to be the oldest alligator in captivity.
The US military's mysterious X-37B has spent almost a year in space on its latest secretive mission.