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.
Fossil hunters have discovered the skull of a huge prehistoric lion that roamed Africa 200,000 years ago.
Unusual footage has emerged showing an elephant attempting to ingest pieces of smouldering charcoal.
A swimming club in Australia has appealed for ships to keep a look out for its recently escaped mascot.
Scientists are attempting to create a breed of coral that is more resistant to the effects of global warming.
A Romanian court has formally rejected Constantin Reliu's claim that he is actually very much alive.
It has been 100 years since the transport ship USS Cyclops disappeared without a trace in the Atlantic.
The device is able to solve the puzzle so quickly that to the naked eye it seems almost instantaneous.
The voice-activated home assistant has reportedly been laughing out of the blue for no apparent reason.
The success of last month's launch has meant that the next Falcon Heavy will be carrying more than just a car.
In 1917, two English schoolgirls claimed to have photographed fairies at the bottom of their garden.
Scientists have discovered a huge colony of over 1.5 million rare penguins on a remote Antarctic island.
A table-sized antenna has picked up the fingerprints of the first ever stars to emerge after the Big Bang.
New footage has been released showing the Space Launch System engine reaching 113 percent thrust level.
Located in Hinckley, England, the new center will offer visitors a selection of allegedly haunted items to peruse.
Scientists have used modern scanning techniques to discover what thylacine infants really looked like.
A man in India unexpectedly underwent a rare operation that has left him with two working, beating hearts.
A solitary tree on an island in New Zealand may hold the key to determining the beginning of the Anthropocene.
It is believed that plants first arose on land 100 million years earlier than previous studies had suggested.