More than two hundred years ago in parts of North America, a strange event, named Dark Day, turned morning to night.…
Asteroid 2012 JU passed within nearly 119,000 miles of Earth on May 14, just a whisker away from us in…
Eric Stroud, an American chemist, says he's found a substance - several, in fact - that can repel some of…
The Dalai Lama says he will give away to charity $1.7 million Templeton Prize money awarded to him. The Tibetan…
YouTube user “rob19791”claims he has found proof that NASA is covering up evidence of aliens because the agency's spacecraft that…
Researchers have discovered that crows recognize familiar human voices and the calls of familiar birds from other species. The ability…
The oldest-known Mayan astronomical tables have been discovered at Xultun archeological site in Guatemala, archaeologists announce. Xultun includes the first known…
Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), one of Europe's main contributions to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is built and ready to…
The world’s first driverless cars will soon be a reality on the roads of Nevada after the state approved America's…
Scientists have found that dinosaurs may be partly to blame for a change in climate because they created so much…
Supermoon has graced the skies, appearing bigger and brighter than usual, as it comes closer to the Earth - and…
The Associated Press has apologized for sacking Ed Kennedy, a war reporter who broke the news that World War II…
Sixty-seven years ago, in May 1945, the Nazi regime collapsed being squeezed ever more tightly between two fronts - the…
Supermoon - the nickname for a perigee full moon, closer to the Earth than usual - could cause tides to…
Queen Elizabeth II, one of the most travelled monarchs ever, has been to 116 countries on official state visits as…
Researchers at the University of Washington have found that Greenland's glaciers are losing less ice than scientists once feared. The…
A newly unveiled report written for wartime British intelligence says Adolf Hitler developed a "messiah complex" towards the end of…
Astronomers say the moon will go "super” this weekend, but that will mean bad news for the meteor shower watchers.…
The European Space Agency is to mount Juice probe, a billion-euro mission, to Jupiter and its icy moons. Juice probe…
Researchers have found red blood cells around the wounds of Oetzi, the 5,300-year-old caveman found frozen in the Italian Alps…
The largest exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the human body goes on display in the Queen's Gallery at…
College dropout Jason Padgett has been hailed a unique maths genius after his brain was damaged in a brutal attack…
A British-Indian team of scientists have announced the discovery of a new species of limbless amphibian. The animal was identified…
A group of billionaire entrepreneurs set up prospecting company Planetary Resources and plans to mine asteroids for their resources. The…
Two men from Wales have been charged after a fairy penguin was taken from Sea World theme park in Queensland,…