This month marks four decades since NASA's two pioneering spacecraft headed off to visit the gas giants.
Until recently, maps and atlases were plagued by non-existent islands, mountain ranges and countries.
Astrobotic is aiming to land its unmanned Peregrine lunar lander on the surface of the Moon in two years' time.
A mystery spanning over 55 years has finally been solved thanks to newly released CIA documents.
Scientists have found evidence of a huge, hulking semi-flightless swan that went extinct 500 years ago.
Marine researcher Marianne Nyegaard has identified the first new species of sunfish in over 130 years.
Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong made history when they set foot on the lunar surface 48 years ago today.
Archaeologists now believe that Australia was colonized 18,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Archaeologists working near Borough Market have discovered a coffin dating back over 1,600 years.
Archaeologists have uncovered new writings by Hippocrates, the famed 'father of Western medicine'.
Scientists have identified a microscopic species capable of surviving almost any cataclysmic event.
A peculiar aerial phenomenon has been sighted in countries all across the world in recent years.
Footage allegedly recorded at the time of the sighting has since managed to make its way on to YouTube.
Today marks 70 years since the recovery of a 'flying disc' at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.
A photograph pulled from the National Archives appears to show Earhart at a dock on the Marshall Islands.
An unexpectedly high amount of the organic molecule has been found coming from Saturn's icy moon.
It has been exactly two decades since NASA's Pathfinder mission touched down on the surface of Mars.
The remarkable longevity of Roman sea piers has proven something of a mystery to modern engineers.
Stephen Hawking is hoping to send a space probe to a potentially habitable world around Alpha Centauri.
A mass extinction event 200 million years ago made it possible for the dinosaurs to dominate the planet.