According to a new study, many planets in the so-called habitable zone can only support single-celled organisms.
The Munich region of Germany was hammered by hailstones the size of tennis balls earlier this week.
Scientists in Germany have built a measurement device to determine if the enigmatic EmDrive actually works.
A woman on Facebook recently posted CCTV footage of an utterly bizarre creature walking down her driveway.
A type of pitcher plant that eats small salamanders has been identified by researchers in Ontario.
A visitor to a museum in Canada recently guessed the code to a safe that hadn't been opened in decades.
In the United States, there are almost as many believers in intelligent alien life as there are believers in God.
A new paper from an Australian think tank has predicted that human society will collapse within 30 years.
Surgeons managed to accidentally set a man's chest cavity on fire during an operation in Australia.
An 86-year-old man has been treated for rabies in the US after a bat emerged from his iPad case and bit him.
A driver captured on a speed camera in Germany had their identity hidden by a rather timely dove.
Pedestrians were left wading through a knee-deep tidal wave of suds after foam started bubbling from manholes.
A bizarre new trend has seen tourists throwing Haribo sweets in to Loch Ness to try and lure the monster.
The prize will be awarded to the best 'research proposal investigating some aspect of remote viewing.'
Oxford academic Dr Young-hae Chi claims that humanity has been having some very close encounters indeed.
An evolutionary biologist has outlined what is likely to happen when people start living full-time on Mars.
Shepton Mallet Prison in Somerset is believed by many to be one of Britain's most haunted buildings.
The Bank of America has predicted that extending the human lifespan will soon become a major pursuit.
Peculiar video footage has emerged showing a vaguely humanoid shape floating across the sky over Burbank.
The ancient gum-chewing inhabitants of Sweden left behind Scandinavia's oldest known human DNA.