Japan has launched Epsilon, the first in a new generation of space rockets, hoping the design will make missions more…
Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, has shrunk, according to new data released by US geographers. Mount McKinley,…
Voyager-1 has become the first manmade object to leave the Solar System. Scientists say the probe's instruments indicate it has…
Blobfish has won a public vote to become the official mascot of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. This gives the…
A new research has found evidence to suggest that climate change, rather than hunting, was the main factor that drove…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology tops the world's top 20 universities, according to the new QS World University rankings. Harvard University…
Scientists say have discovered Tamu Massif, the single largest volcano in the world, a dead colossus deep beneath the Pacific…
President Joachim Gauck has become the first German senior dignitary to visit Oradour-sur-Glane in France, where 642 people were killed…
Thirty former Auschwitz death camp guards should face prosecution in Germany, justice officials have said. The Baden-Wuerttemberg state justice ministry,…
A new research presented at the Goldschmidt Meeting in Florence, Italy, say that life may have started on Mars before…
Liberia's Education Minister Etmonia David-Tarpeh says she finds it hard to believe that not a single candidate passed this year's…
The Farmers' Almanac that hits newsstands Monday predicts a winter storm will hit the Northeast around the time the Super…
Newly released tapes show two future US presidents called Richard Nixon in support after he gave a speech on the…
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano has described his fear as water began filling his helmet during a spacewalk and he only…
The CIA has officially acknowledged the secret test site known as Area 51, in a newly unclassified internal history of…
The Ecuadorian conservation plan that would have paid the country not to drill for oil in previously untouched parts of…
US scientists have discovered a new animal living in the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador. It has been named…
Paypal founder Elon Musk has revealed plans for a radical new “hyperloop” transport system that could “shoot” passengers 380 miles…
Hungarian Nazi war crimes suspect Laszlo Csatary has died at the age of 98 while awaiting trial, his lawyer said.…
In 2013, the Perseid meteors will streak across the short summer nights – August 10-13 – from late night until…
Frankenburger, the world's first lab-grown burger, was cooked and eaten at a news conference in London today. Dutch scientists took…
Frankenburger, the world's first lab-grown burger, is to be unveiled and eaten at a news conference in London on Monday.…
Frankenburger is the world’s first test-tube burger and is being served in London. The burger is made from meat grown…
Japan has launched Kirobo, the world's first talking robot, into space to serve as companion to astronaut Kochi Wakata who…
Queen Elizabeth II was expected to urge British people to pray and remain united and resolute in the event of…