Fossils of a turtle the size of a car have been unearthed in what is now northern South America. The turtle – Stupendemys geographicus – is...
Chocolate chip cookies have become the first food to be baked in space in a first-of-its-kind experiment. Astronauts baked the cookies in a special zero-gravity oven...
Humankind, like Cinderella, has only until midnight – but the strike of the Doomsday Clock will bring far more serious repercussions than those that faced the...
The surface of Enceladus is covered by between 18 to 24 miles of thick clean ice, making it one of the most reflective bodies in the...
Scientists have revealed what the voice of a mummified Egyptian priest who lived 3,000 years ago would have sounded like by 3-D printing his vocal tract....
Mars is the focus of much scientific study about possible human colonization. Mars’s surface conditions and past presence of liquid water make it arguably the most...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the oldest and faintest stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752 have made an unexpected...
A frog believed to be the last of his kind in the world has been granted a reprieve from solitude. Romeo, known as the world’s loneliest...
Russia’s only space radio telescope is no longer responding to commands from Earth, officials say. Astro Space Centre chief Nikolai Kardashev said some of the Spektr-R...
Astronomers have revealed details of mysterious signals emanating from a distant galaxy, picked up by a telescope in Canada. The precise nature and origin of the...
