One of Australia's most perplexing alien abduction encounters continues to prove compelling 27 years on.
12 months ago, what started out as a tongue-in-cheek Facebook post became a social media phenomenon.
The space agency has officially published its $28bn plan to land humans on the lunar surface within four years.
Kane Tanaka - the oldest person in Japan - has reached a grand old age despite a penchant for fizzy drinks.
Denis Vashurin is something of an online celebrity in Russia thanks to his bafflingly youthful appearance.
Some of this year's most bizarre science projects were recognized at an online ceremony this week.
Scientists have been studying what gives the rather unusual 'gympie gympie' tree such an excruciating sting.
Commuters couldn't believe their eyes this week when a man wearing a large snake got onto the bus.
Scientists have identified 100 million-year-old sperm cells perfectly preserved within fossilized tree resin.
Hundreds took to social media on Monday night after a strange object appeared in the skies over New Jersey.
An unexpected visitor of a furry, four-legged variety gave one family quite a surprise earlier this month.
Over 300 years ago, thousands of Scots were burnt at the stake because they were believed to be witches.
New research has suggested that you might actually stand a chance of escaping a rampaging T. rex.
An elderly female snake that hasn't been near a male in 15 years has inexplicably laid a clutch of eggs.
The cigar-shaped interstellar visitor has remained a topic of heated debate among scientists for several years.
Palaeontologists have discovered what is thought to be the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon.
Astronomers in Australia have conducted the deepest and widest ever search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
New research suggests that some victims of the plague were buried face down to stop them rising from the dead.
Experts are attempting to solve the mystery of an unidentified man who washed up on the Isles of Scilly.
SETI has been searching for evidence of alien signals for decades, but what if we're using the wrong technology ?