In a world first, an exploration team has proved that it's possible to drive from Russia to Canada.
An isolated reservoir untouched for up to 2.64 billion years has been found at a mine in Ontario.
Opportunity has broken the record for the furthest distance driven by a NASA vehicle on another world.
With 800,000 Twitter followers astronaut Chris Hadfield managed to capture the world's imagination.
The United Nations has suggested that eating insects could help solve world food shortages.
An image taken from orbit that was featured on NASA's website shows a potentially otherworldly extra.
One of the wonders of the ancient world, the gardens may have not actually been in Babylon at all.
Rob Rhinehart has developed a special type of shake in a bid to solve the world's food problems.
A microscopic one minute stop-motion animation has been made entirely out of individual atoms.
The world's first building to be powered by algae is being piloted in Hamburg by engineering firm Arup.
A vast harbor complex thought to be 4,500 years old has been unearthed on the shores of the Red Sea.
A contender for the world's largest wasp nest has been discovered on the Spanish island of Tenerife.
With all the talk of the cataclysm lately, is there a way to determine when the world will really end ?
More than 10% of the world's population of ploughshare tortoises were found in the man's suitcase.
Overfishing and other destructive factors may be pushing the world's oceans towards disaster.
A particularly long-lived feline in the UK called Wadsworth has just celebrated his 27th birthday.
Bojana Danilovic sees the world flipped the wrong way around due to an unusual brain disorder.
CT scans of ancient mummies have revealed that heart disease was widespread in the ancient world.
A 33,000-year-old wolf skull discovered in Russia has turned out to be one of the world's first dogs.
Doctors have made medical history by managing to successfully cure a child that was born with HIV.