For the first time ever, scientists have observed two supermassive black holes orbiting one another.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered a rather unusual feature on the planet's surface.
Astronomers have picked up the gravitational waves produced by the merging of two distant black holes.
New evidence has been found to support the idea that matter vanishes when it falls in to a black hole.
The find is so unusual that it has had to be assigned to a whole new branch of the insect family tree.
A secretive 'priest hole' in an English Tudor mansion has been tied to the infamous 'Gunpowder Plot'.
A budget of $188 million has been assigned to the new mission which will be launching within three years.
Researchers have developed a new device capable of identifying a whole host of different conditions.
Geologists have been drilling a 5km borehole in to rocks measuring in excess of 500 degrees Celsius.
Astronomers at Queen's University, Belfast have helped to discover an extremely rare celestial event.
A large hole in the King Baudoin ice shelf has challenged what we know of the East Antarctic ice sheet.
Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole floating in the outskirts of a newly merged galaxy.
The massive 750,000 square-foot timepiece was run for a whole 24 hours using an army of large lorries.
Scientists have revealed the discovery of a whole new reef structure off the coast of Australia.
The universe could be filled with primordial black holes which pass through us once every 1,000 years.
Are shadowy government agencies spraying us with chemicals from airplanes or is the whole idea nonsense ?
If it was to become possible to survive a trip in to a black hole, where exactly would you end up?
Scientists have identified a whole new species of whale following years of stories from local fishermen.
The fossil remains of a whole new species of carnivorous dinosaur have been unearthed in Argentina.
Conspiracy theorists now maintain that the whole world will come to an end by the end of this month.