NASA Phoenix Mars lander has detected the presence of perchlorate salts in the planet's soil, indicating that liquid wat...
A surgeon in Italy who was in the middle of performing a brain operation on a patient continued to undergo the surgery d...
Images of an orangutan mother catching a rope and using it to get herself and her baby across a flooded river have emerg...
The tale of John 'Babbacombe' Lee still perplexes to this day, nicknamed 'The Man They Could Not Hang', Lee survived thr...
Scientists aim to replicate the power of the Sun in a new nuclear fusion experiment involving laser beams being fired at...
A magician who claimed that he had mailed himself in a shipping crate from New York to Las Vegas has now admitted that i...
A chimpanzee at Furuvik Zoo helped demonstrate that chimps, like humans, are able to plan ahead. The chimp made a specta...
NASA has launched its new Kepler spacecraft, marking the beginning of a three-and-a-half year hunt for planets in distan...
The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter could have been formed during the early solar system when Jupiter and Saturn ...
Seth Shostak writes about the future of manned space exploration, unmanned probes and the problems we will face in the f...
The hunt goes on in a small town in Brazil to uncover the reason behind the unusual concentration of twins born in the a...
In a recent report from Brazil a woman claims to have been attacked by a 'werewolf' which scratched her arms and face. T...
Globs of what appear to be water droplets photographed on the struts of the Phoenix Mars lander have generated significa...
Reports of a mermaid in San Jose, while turning out to be fake have nonetheless attracted flocks of people to the marine...
Experts have warned that apocalyptic predictions about the effects of global warming are not only exaggerated but could ...
Scientists have warned that 'dark comets' could pose a threat to the Earth and that we won't be able to detect them. A c...
Scientists in Britain sparked significant controversy recently when it was revealed that human DNA could be combined wit...