The son of a man who found a message in a bottle 60 years ago is now searching for the author's relatives.
The research aims to solve donor organ shortages by making it possible to grow human organs inside sheep.
The unfortunate man spent several days scrambling around the sewerage system looking for a way out.
Someone has been hanging underpants out across a village square in France and nobody seems to know why.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe has captured a stunning new image of the Earth against the blackness of space.
NASA's New Horizons probe has made history again by capturing images 3.79 billion miles from the Earth.
The way our ancestors hunted prey may have given them a significant advantage over the Neanderthals.
The remarkable video shows the moment a young cephalopod emerges from its egg and changes color.
New footage has emerged showing a large chunk of ice narrowly missing pedestrians on a London street.
The new material is capable of repairing itself when damaged and can even be recycled to make new skin.
A stuffed tiger toy found in a cowshed managed to spark an armed police alert in Scotland at the weekend.
The act of hitting tree trunks thousands of times may actually be giving woodpeckers brain damage.
Consisting of 16 separate images, the impressive vista was captured using the rover's wide-angle lens.
Just like the oceans here on Earth, Titan's hydrocarbon seas and lakes lie at an average elevation.
1,000 risk management experts from around the world have outlined this year's top man-made threats.
500 years ago, a deadly epidemic known as 'cocoliztli' killed nearly 80 per cent of the Aztec population.
Entrepreneur Stockton Rush is aiming to offer tourists the opportunity to visit the wreckage in person.
A US-based exploration firm is set to begin hunting for the whereabouts of the missing plane's wreckage.
The ambitious mission, if successful, will achieve what no other country has ever managed to do.
The SpaceX CEO has posted up images of his Tesla Roadster mounted inside the rocket's nose cone.