A boy who collated stories of miracles on his website has been canonized years after his death at the age of just 15.
Scientists have discovered a black hole that is thought to be more than 36 billion times the mass of the Sun.
Dark matter accumulating in the cores of particular large planets could help us to finally confirm its existence.
One of West Virginia's most enigmatic mysteries will be the focus of a celebratory event starting September 20th.
Eagle-eyed Google Earth sleuths have discovered a strange disc-like object on the Antarctic ice.
Underwater cameras have captured the first ever footage of a live Antarctic gonate squid in its natural habitat.
A few thousand years from now, some of the human body's less useful adaptations are likely to disappear.
A prize-winning, hypothetical spacecraft could be the key to enabling humans to colonize distant worlds.
Astronomers believe that they have discovered a gas giant in orbit around the star Alpha Centauri A.
Dennis 'Tink' Bell was a 25-year-old meteorologist who fell down a crevasse in Antarctica back in 1959.
Sean Duffy, who is the acting head of the US space agency, has ordered that the project be significantly sped up.
The structure was thought to have once housed the chest in which Moses placed the original ten commandments.
A new survey carried out on the 100th anniversary of modern quantum mechanics has revealed deep uncertainties.
The legendary 'Lord of the Rings' director has set his sights on resurrecting one of New Zealand's most iconic species.
Archaeologists have been left perplexed by the sheer size of the shoes and why there are quite so many of them.
Astronomers have identified what is thought to be the third ever example of an object from a distant solar system.
The 35-year-old spent years exploiting a loophole in the system to get out of paying for a plane ticket.
According to researchers, the unexplained radio pulses defy our current understanding of particle physics.
Scientists have found signs of a vast, prehistoric landscape hidden a mile beneath the ice.
Transhumanism could see real-life mutants become the norm, rendering ordinary humans obsolete.