Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has called for diesel cars to be banned from the French capital by 2020 as part…
James Watson’s Nobel Prize gold medal has sold for $4.8 million at a Christie’s auction. The 1962 prize was awarded…
NASA's Orion spaceship has completed its maiden, unmanned voyage with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico. Drone video…
NASA’s Orion space capsule that is set to get humans to Mars is about to make its maiden flight. Orion…
2014 is in the running to be the warmest year globally since records began, early estimates show. In the first…
Australia is suffering from extreme hot weather for 13 days. The stretch with temperatures exceeding 40C in Longreach that ended…
Molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist James D. Watson is to auction off his Nobel Prize medal he won in 1962…
The Vatican is raffling off the gifts given to Pope Francis in order to raise money for the poor. A…
Lake-effect snow appears to be the cause of the blizzard that completely covered most parts of northwestern US states from…
Scientists have confirmed that the Philae lander has detected organic molecules on the surface of Comet 67P. Carbon-containing "organics" are…
“Vape” has been named 2014's international word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries. The definition of vape: to inhale and…
A British survey for the Folio Society has named the Bible has been named the world's most influential book. The…
The Philae robot probe on comet 67P has sent another stream of data back to Earth before losing power. Everything…
Philae probe is now stable and sending first pictures after a historic comet landing, but there are concerns about its…
ESA’s robot probe Philae has made the first, historic landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, after descending from its mothership, Rosetta spacecraft.…
European Space Agency's Rosetta satellite will release the Philae lander on a seven-hour descent to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko…
Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith had as many as 40 wives, some already married, the church leaders admitted for the…
President Ronald Reagan’s apology to PM Margaret Thatcher over the US invasion of Grenada has been published for the first…
The UK is marking Remembrance Sunday with Queen Elizabeth II to lead commemorations later to honor members of the armed…
According to NTSB investigators, a safety device on the Virgin Galactic spacecraft that crashed on October 31 killing test pilot…
The investigation into the Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo crash in California's Mojave Desert could take about a year, the head of…
US authorities are investigating why Virgin Galactic’s space rocket crashed over California's Mojave desert on a test flight. One pilot…
1. Halloween is still the Wiccan New Year. Halloween originates from a Celtic tradition called Samhain, a festival that marked…
ISS supply rocket Antares has exploded during its launch from NASA base in Virginia. Antares, a 14-storey rocket built by…
Micropia museum, the world's first "interactive microbe zoo", opened in Amsterdam last month. The 10 million euros museum is next…