Hidden 4,000ft beneath the surface of the ice, Lake Mercer remains a tantalizing target for investigation.
NASA's long-lived space probe has managed to pull off the most distant flyby of an object ever undertaken.
The youngster called up the police on Christmas Day because he didn't like the snow pants he'd received.
Frenchman Jean-Jacques Savin is hoping to cross the Atlantic using nothing but the current to propel him.
Letters to Santa written by children during the late 19th and early 20th centuries have been revealed on Twitter.
A new study has revealed that Saturn's rings may be slowly falling on to the gas giant as 'ring rain'.
A parrot named Rocco has been driving his owner up the wall by ordering items using Amazon's voice assistant.
Astronomers have identified the farthest known object in our solar system at a distance of 11 billion miles.
A recent segment on Russian state TV mistakenly reported on a 'high-tech robot' that was anything but.
The animal with the world's fastest moving appendage has been revealed to be a tiny ant with a lethal jaw.
A photograph of an eastern fox squirrel alleged to be a whopping 2ft tall has been raising eyebrows recently.
Scientists have succeeded in transplanting pig hearts in to baboons in a groundbreaking new experiment.
Scientists have discovered a horrifying new species of wasp in the depths of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
An absolutely enormous 1,400kg steer named 'Knickers' is believed to be the largest of its kind in Australia.
Palaeontologists have discovered the fossil remains of a huge Triassic-era relative of modern mammals.
NASA has shared an image of a distant galaxy cluster that looks quite a bit like the iconic Star Trek vessel.
Scientists studying data from the Gaia satellite have identified a massive 'ghost' galaxy lurking nearby.
Two divers came across something extraordinary during a recent excursion off the coast of New Zealand.
Scientists have used satellite data to map out the terrain hidden beneath the ice of the southernmost continent.
The origin of a flightless bird found only on a remote island in the Atlantic has puzzled scientists for years.