Hashtag-like etchings found on a rock in South Africa's Blombos Cave are thought to be over 100,000 years old.
The son of a couple in China who died in a car accident has been born to a surrogate mother four years later.
The ever-ambitious space firm is hoping to see humans walk on the surface of Mars within the next decade.
Two of the largest stones that make up Stonehenge may have actually been at the site for millions of years.
The Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the light from a very bright star over 9.3 billion lights years away.
A leading surgeon believes that we will gain the ability to read each other's minds within as little as 20 years.
A woman complaining of back pain was found to have a broken epidural needle lodged in her spine.
Fossil hunters have discovered the skull of a huge prehistoric lion that roamed Africa 200,000 years ago.
This new real-time graphics demo shows off an eerily ultra-realistic computer-generated Andy Serkis.
An old photo of what is thought to be the house's original foundation has been discovered in a local archive.
NASA's flagship rover has now been trundling across the surface of the Red Planet for more than five years.
The World War II-era vessel went down in 1942 after being hit by Japanese torpedoes in the Pacific.
It has been 100 years since the transport ship USS Cyclops disappeared without a trace in the Atlantic.
Known as Hop, the settlement has been spoken of in Norse sagas passed down over hundreds of years.
The construction of the world-famous stone circle may have been all about bringing people together.
A newly published study has strongly suggested that the famed aviator's remains were found back in 1940.
The bottle, which dates back 132 years, was found on a beach around 180km north of Perth, Australia.
The final resting place of the US aircraft carrier, which went down during World War II, has finally been located.
Covering 11 generations over a period of 500 years, the family tree is thought to be the largest ever created.
In 1917, two English schoolgirls claimed to have photographed fairies at the bottom of their garden.