An enormous tree in the Chilean Andes is a contender for the oldest living tree on Earth at 5,400 years old.
A grave marker inscribed with a curse in red lettering was found during conservation work at Beit She'arim park.
Known as 'trioxides', these highly reactive chemicals could be contributing to health and environmental problems.
Archaeologists have unearthed the skeleton of a woman who was buried on a bed adorned with images of mermaids.
A new type of flying reptile from the age of the dinosaurs has been unearthed in the Andes mountains.
Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has suggested that some interstellar meteorites could be artificial in nature.
Scientists have found signs of a historical earthquake so large that it produced a tsunami 5,000 miles long.
In a world first, a doctor on Earth appeared in real-time aboard the ISS using augmented reality technology.
The act of destroying the Moon was put forward as a way to solve many of our planet's problems.
Plans to beam Earth's location out into space could have unintended consequences, an Oxford scientist has warned.
The enormous comet is thought to have a nucleus 50 times larger than would normally be expected.
New data released by the US Space Command (USSC) has confirmed a close encounter with an interstellar visitor.
Over the last 30 years, scientists have succeeded in identifying a staggering 5,000 planets in distant solar systems.
The discovery, which dates back to the 14th-Century, has been described as 'remarkable'.
A jogger recently came across this indescribable creature and nobody seems to know what on Earth it is.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the fossil of a giant winged reptile on Scotland's Isle of Skye.
On February 20th, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.
A new study has looked into the possibility that our planet is not simply a ball of water, metal and rock.
The skeletons, which were found among several hundred other bodies, had their heads placed between their legs.
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown opening situated 62 miles beneath the planet's surface.