NASA and ESA are planning an ambitious mission to return samples of Mars to the Earth for the first time.
Two metal detectorists in the UK have been jailed after trying to sell a $15M Viking hoard of gold and silver.
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, more and more people now believe that the Earth is flat.
The research organization is today celebrating 35 years of searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Laurent Simons is about to become one of the youngest people in history to earn themselves a university degree.
Researchers have used an artificial intelligence to identity previously unseen drawings on the desert floor.
The skeletons of two infants unearthed in Ecuador were found to be wearing helmets made from other skulls.
A girl who happens to look uncannily like the young activist has been spotted in an old archive photograph.
Newly released documents have shed light on why the alleged former Area 51 worker was raided last year.
Standing up to three meters tall, Gigantopithecus was the largest ape to ever walk the face of the Earth.
Comedian Andrew Maxwell and his crew once had their own harrowing experience near the secretive facility.
A 71-year-old man in Hawaii was killed after he fell down a lava tube that had opened up in his own garden.
New CT scans of an ancient mummified cat dating back 2,500 years have revealed something rather unexpected.
Researchers have posted up an eerie image showing the human-like silhouette of a large cephalopod.
An impromptu and ill-advised egg eating competition in India recently resulted in the death of a 42-year-old man.
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of what is thought to be one of the oldest books ever written.
Dating back 40,000 years, the necklace may have been the last of its kind ever made by the Neanderthals.
A Russian man could go to prison for five years for using a pet cat to attack a police officer.
Remarkable aerial footage shows a crop circle that is a completely different color to its surroundings.
In 1969, nightwatchman John Cudby had a terrifying encounter at New Zealand's Waipukurau Aerodrome.