Scientists claim that spacecrafts could one day navigate through the cosmos using a particular type of dead star as a…
NASA’s Cassini probe has captured striking images from flying by three moons of Saturn, including new pictures of Enceladus's gushing…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces that he has located the long-submerged F-1 engines that blasted the Apollo 11 Moon mission…
The fossilized bones of a foot that were discovered in Ethiopia and dated to be 3.4 million years old gave…
Cambridge art historian Thomas de Wesselow came with a new theory about the Turin Shroud, being convinced that it is…
Vast amounts of gas and dust have been detected in the galaxy that contains the most distant supermassive black hole…
NASA’s Cassini probe will make today its lowest pass yet over the south pole of Enceladus, an active moon of…
A new study shows that during medieval times the whole of our planet heated up without the aid of human…
Veterinarians and biologists say that cats' remarkable ability to survive falls from great heights is a simple and predictable matter…
James Cameron has triumphantly resurfaced from the Earth's deepest point - Mariana Trench - where only two men have ever…
Scientists at the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos, Switzerland, are helping specialists from Nestle to study how…
James Cameron begins an attempt to become the first person in 50 years to visit the Mariana Trench, the deepest part…
Ebb, one of two washing-machine-sized NASA spacecrafts, has sent back a gallery of images of Earth from an orbit just 35…
International Space Station (ISS) crew took refuge in two Soyuz escape capsules as a piece of space junk drifted nearby.…
Data from a NASA’s Dawn spacecraft revealed that the giant asteroid Vesta possesses many features usually associated with rocky planets…
NASA’s Messenger probe has found further tantalizing evidence for the existence of water ice at Mercury's poles. Though surface temperatures…
About 9,000 of possible new ancient sites have been discovered by archaeologists using computers to scour satellite images. Jason Ur…
HadCRUT, one of the main global temperate records, which dates back to 1850, has been updated by climatologists with amendments…
US researchers have found that black bears have a surprising capacity to heal while hibernating. Medical researchers and zoologists worked…
Kirtana Vallabhaneni, a Merseyside student at West Kirby Grammar School has been named as the UK Young Scientist of the…
Austrian skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner is more than halfway toward his goal of setting a world record for the highest…
The legend says that St. Patrick came to Ireland in the fifth century to spread the word of Christ and…
A new experiment repeating the test of the speed of neutrinos has found that the subatomic particles do not travel…
Scientists have discovered that male fruit flies that have been rejected by females drink significantly more alcohol than those that…
The remains of at least five individuals from a previously unknown human species have been identified in southern China. The…