The US President has reiterated his efforts to send humans to the Red Planet within the coming decades.
An intriguing optical illusion has been caught on camera from the shores of North America's largest lake.
The peculiar sighting is just one of several to have been reported over the Russian capital recently.
The photographs seem to show an anomalous object appearing and disappearing within a matter of seconds.
A new study has suggested that humans may be limited to a maximum lifespan of around 115 years.
Elon Musk has outlined his extraordinarily ambitious plans to make mankind an interplanetary species.
Scientists have used cutting-edge techniques to read a charred scroll dating back over 1,500 years.
NASA's highly successful spacecraft will soon be getting up close and personal with the gas giant itself.
Scientists have found signs of bone cancer in the fossil remains of an early South African hominin.
It now appears as though Mars would have been able to support life for longer than is generally believed.
New evidence suggests that indigo dyes were first used 1,800 years earlier than previously believed.
Unseen footage of what appears to be a live Tasmanian tiger in Victoria has appeared on social media.
The European Space Agency has unveiled a map of our galaxy charting the positions of 1.1 billion stars.
Meteorologists working at a polar weather station have been trapped for weeks by a pack of polar bears.
The mystery of a missing British explorer ship which disappeared in the Arctic in 1845 has been solved.
The Rosetta spacecraft has finally managed to locate its companion probe on the surface of comet 67P.
Wildlife conservation authorities have downranked the giant panda's endangered status to 'vulnerable'.
Dubious footage of a gigantic disc-shaped object filmed in Malaysia has gone viral online this week.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has identified what appears to be an ice volcano on the dwarf planet's surface.
The universe could be filled with primordial black holes which pass through us once every 1,000 years.