Scientists have conceived of a steam-powered robotic hopper bot that could explore Europa and Enceladus.
The Hainan Gibbon, of which only a few dozen still survive, has received a welcome and unexpected boost.
A huge flock of several thousand birds swarmed around disconcerted shoppers outside a store in Texas recently.
University of Connecticut physics professor Ron Mallett hopes to one day build a working time machine.
An extensive investigation has failed to solve the mystery of how a human bone ended up in a clothes shop sock.
NASA and ESA are hoping to secure formal approval to return samples of Mars soil to the Earth for study.
A suitably authentic looking ghost shop has opened its doors in one of England's most haunted cities.
The US military's secretive pint-sized spacecraft has now spent a whopping 717 days up in space non-stop.
A woman who had been shopping in New York recently returned to her truck to find a dead body in the back.
An orthopaedic plate has been found in the stomach of a 4.7-meter-long crocodile that died in Queensland.
Individuals born with six fingers on each hand are able to perform tasks that usually require two hands.
A controversial experiment in China has been likened to something out of a 'Planet of the Apes' movie.
Scientists have identified and climbed a record-breaking tree in Borneo that measures a whopping 328ft in height.
The space agency is hoping to launch its first manned mission to the Red Planet within the next 14 years.
The tiny chopper is set to become the first man-made aerial vehicle to fly through the skies of another world.
Researchers with the Weddell Sea Expedition are hoping to find the wreckage of Shackleton's vessel Endurance.
Conservationists have uncovered stone carvings dating back 600 years on the tomb of a medieval bishop.
Frenchman Jean-Jacques Savin is hoping to cross the Atlantic using nothing but the current to propel him.
A parrot named Rocco has been driving his owner up the wall by ordering items using Amazon's voice assistant.
A photograph of an eastern fox squirrel alleged to be a whopping 2ft tall has been raising eyebrows recently.