Explorer Felicity Aston from UK has reached Antarctica's Hercules Inlet, becoming the first woman to cross the continent alone. Felicity…
An amazing picture of the aurora borealis - the Northern Lights - shows how the phenomenon can light up the…
Scientists from Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, have found that boa constrictors halt squeezing a prey when their victim's heart stops. This…
Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe that's been stuck in Earth orbit for two months has crashed down in the Pacific Ocean…
Phobos-Grunt, the Russian's failed Mars probe, is about to fall back to Earth - quite probably on Sunday. Phobos-Grunt spacecraft…
One of Europe's great astronomical ventures is coming to a close after the Planck telescope, which was put in space…
The world's smallest frog has been discovered in Papua New Guinea by a US-based team. At 7 mm (0.27 inches)…
Astronomers wanted to find out how Milky Way galaxy looked from the outside - a difficult task given the Earth…
A hundred years after Titanic sank, expeditions to the ship, in depths of the Atlantic Ocean, are coming to close to allow…
On December 21, 2012, the apocalypse foretold 5,125 years ago by the ancient Mayans will come to pass and the…
A new Ice Age is due to start within 1,500 years, according to Cambridge University scientists; but, due to human…
Scientists have used forensic technology to recreate some of the most distant members of the human evolutionary “family”, ancestors stretching…
A 4-year-old boy – who historians believe could have been Adolf Hitler – was saved from drowning in the icy…
Twins Roku and Hex are the world’s first chimeric monkeys, who have been created with genetic material from six “parents”…
Scientists from McGill University, Canada, have created the “supersoldier” ants with huge heads and jaws by activating ancient genes. Researchers…
The 2012 Quadrantids meteor shower is expected to peak, according to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on Wednesday, January 4,…
A YouTube video presents 100 years of world events from 1911 to 2011 into a 10-minute clip using authentic footage.…
George magazine, founded by John F. Kennedy Jr., famously featured on its covers Cindy Crawford as George Washington and Drew…
NASA has succeeded in putting the first of twin gravity mapping satellites (Gravity Recovery and Internal Laboratories) in orbit around…
Michigan's Lake Superior State University has released the 2012 List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse…
Jack Horner, the technical adviser on Jurassic Park and professor of palaeontology at Montana State University, is hoping to use…
After Europe hailed his discovery of the Americas in the 15th century, Christopher Columbus was blamed for introducing syphilis to…
Scientists from John Hopkins University in Baltimore have designed a new, leap-year-free calendar, which makes birthdays, holidays and Christmas to…
A sea creature that lights up when touched - was one of several rare and elusive species captured by Scottish…
The Russian Soyuz rocket system has been pressed back into service, five days after a failed launch. The vehicle successfully…