An asteroid from the earliest days of the solar system has been found four billion kilometers from Earth.
Contrary to our understanding of star formation, large stars don't appear to form the same way as smaller ones.
The ambitious BioGenome Project aims to sequence and store the genomes of more than 1.5 million species.
A file recently released by the US government contains information about 'psycho-electric weapons'.
The discovery raises new questions about the formation of galaxies and the nature of dark matter.
Scientists have found the first direct evidence that supermassive black holes control the formation of stars.
Police are appealing for information after a pensioner inexplicably burst in to flames in broad daylight.
The new galaxies date back 13 billion years to a time shortly after the formation of the universe.
The planet, which is much too big for its star, defies our current understanding of planetary formation.
The Civil Aviation Authority has been using an EU law to withhold information about pilot UFO sightings.
Scientists have identified a unique type of ice formation that can be found two kilometers up in the air.
New research has suggested that humans may have been responsible for the formation of the Sahara.
Known as Lucy and Psyche, the new spacecraft will be studying two relics of the early solar system.
Scientists have discovered the world's oldest genetic information within 3.8 million-year-old eggshells.
The massive 750,000 square-foot timepiece was run for a whole 24 hours using an army of large lorries.
Palaeontologists have unearthed a particularly impressive T. rex at Montana's Hell Creek Formation.
A zoo owner has come forward with information that could help to explain the alien big cat phenomenon.
A revolutionary new technique has made it possible to use strings of DNA to store digital photographs.
A British historian has found hidden annotations within the pages of a Bible published back in 1535.
Scientists have created a new type of data storage that can keep information safe for billions of years.