Remains of the largest rat every to walk the planet have been discovered in a cave in East Timor.
If an extraterrestrial race came down and invited you to leave Earth with them on a one-way trip would you do so ?
A newly discovered dinosaur has been named mojoceratops due to its spectacular bone frill.
Scientists have used modern imaging techniques to peer inside a python as it digests a whole rat.
A new experiment has demonstrated that some people prefer going south because north seems like going uphill.
A new observatory designed to search for objects that could pose a threat to the Earth has begun operations.
One of the panels in the Sistine Chapel may hold a hidden illustration of the human brain by Michelangelo.
The new dinosaur is an ancestor of the Triceratops and was built like a tank with two huge horns on its head.
When it was invented 50 years ago the laser was a "solution looking for a problem", nowadays it can be found everywhere.
A large number of frequent UFO sightings over Australia have sparked concerns of an extraterrestial invasion.
Fundamentalist Christian explorers believe they've found the remains of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat.
British scientists have claimed that the dinosaurs died due to a temperature drop rather than an impact.
20 years ago today the Hubble Space Telescope was launched and became our window to the universe.
A painter and decorator was thrown in to jail after he was mistaken by police for a brutal war criminal.
NASA is planning a whole new generation of robotic space missions to the moon and beyond.
A new fossil find has revealed a prehistoric Velociraptor in deadly combat with a Protoceratops.
An image of what some believe to be the real face of Jesus has been computer generated from the Turin Shroud.
Astronomers have discovered a Jupiter sized exoplanet that resembles planets in our own solar system.
A previously undiscovered type of bee has been found to be the key to regulating a hive's temperature.
Surgeons in China have successfully operated to remove a five-inch tail from a four-month-old baby girl.