The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is reaching some key milestones in its preparation for launch in 2018.

Hidden in the marshland of eastern England, archaeologists discover two dwellings from the Bronze Age, unearthing secrets from our ancestors from 3,000 years ago.

Scientists have described a new species of bird in northern India and China, called the Himalayan forest thrush.

Scientists have found oldest evidence of human warfare, fossils of a band of people massacred in Kenya about 10,000 years ago.

Kristof Retezár, a designer based in Vienna, has invented a device that can extract humidity from the air and condense it into drinkable water.

American astronomers say they have strong evidence that there is a ninth planet in our Solar System orbiting far beyond even the dwarf world Pluto.

It will be possible to see all the five bright planets align together in the sky for the first time in more than a decade.

According to Professor Stephen Hawking, humanity is at risk from a series of dangers of our own making.

Despite the fact that we experience time in one direction- we get older, we have records and remember the past, but no record of the future-no laws of physics insists that time must move forward. When the Big Bang created our universe, physicists believe it also created an inverse mirror universe where time moves in an opposite direction.

Since Einstein, physicists have found that certain entities can reach superluminal (that means "faster-than-light") speeds and still follow the cosmic rules laid down by special relativity.

Women who carry an inherited fault in the BRIP1 gene are three times more likely to develop ovarian cancer than those without it, researchers say.

A SpaceX Falcon rocket explodes on landing after successfully delivering an ocean monitoring satellite to orbit.

People are quick to size you up in seconds as soon as they meet you. But what exactly are they assessing?

Humans were in the Arctic at least 45,000 years ago, revealed a new study that describes a brutal mammoth hunting by humans from that time.

A deeply disturbing and controversial line of thinking has emerged within the physics community. It's the idea that we are reaching the absolute limit of what we can understand about the world around us through science.

An orbiting Nasa satellite has spotted an ancient, dried-up river on Mars - with the sort of branching tributaries we see in rivers on Earth.

A scientist has been making her case to be the first in the UK to be allowed to genetically modify human embryos.

Theoretical physicist Laurence Krauss sent the scientific community on Twitter reeling when he suggested that researchers may have detected, for the first time, an astrophysical phenomenon called gravitational waves.

The biggest primate that ever walked the Earth may have died out because of its giant size and limited diet, new research suggests.

The explanation for the unusual look involves some interesting behavior from the nitrogen-heavy ice.