NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope has added to its list of spectacular finds, spotting millions of supermassive…
NASA has released the first spectacular images taken by the Mars rover Curiosity, detailing a mound of layered rock where…
NASA has discovered the Arctic has lost more sea ice this year than at any time since satellite records began…
British artist Sue Austin is preparing to show off a prototype self-propelled underwater wheelchair to the public. Sue Austin, who…
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, has died aged 82. His family says he…
A new research has found that modern Indo-European languages - which include English - originated in Turkey about 9,000 years…
Scientists have developed a forensic test that can predict both the hair and eye color of a possible suspect using…
Japanese researchers have discovered that lar gibbons use the same techniques as human soprano singers to make their melodic but…
Supermarket bananas could soon be coated with a substance derived from seafood to keep them fresh for longer. Scientists have…
NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars two weeks ago, turned its six wheels briefly on Wednesday to satisfy engineers…
NASA has reported its first setback in its Curiosity rover mission to Mars. A sensor on the robot's weather station…
Astronomers have found evidence for a planet being devoured by its star, yielding insights into the fate that will befall…
Just two weeks after landing its Curiosity rover on Mars, NASA has announced it will send another robot to the…
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity has zapped its first Martian rock. Curiosity rover fired its ChemCam laser at a tennis-ball-sized…
Curiosity rover is getting ready to zap its first Martian rock. A small stone lying just to the side of…
Practicing Muslims across the world are observing Ramadan. For one month, they are fasting between sunrise and sunset. But what…
The US Air Force has announced that an attempt to fly its hypersonic jet X-51A WaveRider at Mach 6 (3,600…
Bill Gates’ charitable organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is looking for future loos that can improve sanitation around…
A 1972 image of a Playboy centrefold has been shrunk down to the width of a human hair by scientists…
Hypersonic jet X-51A WaveRider has been tested by US military in a bid to reach Mach 6 (4,300 mph; 6,900…
A new study found that similarities between the DNA of modern people and Neanderthals are more likely to have arisen…
US scientists have announced that the biggest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida has been caught in the Everglades. The…
NASA has released the first full color mosaic from its Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars. Scientists have remarked…
The annual Perseid meteors are expected to put on a spectacular sky show this weekend. Glare from a waning crescent…
US engineers have created Meshworm, a robot that mimics a worm's movements - crawling along surfaces by contracting segments of…