NASA's spacecraft, Cassini, has been orbiting the ringed-planet Saturn for over 10 years, but some of the most interesting discoveries from the mission have come from its occasional visits next door to Saturn's enigmatic moon Enceladus, reports Business Insider.

Today is the future that people have been talking about. Hover boards and self-driven cars are beginning to go mainstream, so why should the concept of teleportation still be a part of the distant future?

The Kepler Space Telescope has spotted a 'bizarre' star system that looks like something an alien civilisation would have built, experts have said.

Fossil finds from China shake up the traditional narrative of humankind's dispersal from Africa.

The UN climate negotiations are heading for failure and need a major redesign if they are to succeed, scientists say.

Scientists have suspected for months the presence of water on Pluto. But it was not until recently that they had solid proof, and the discovery is raising intriguing questions about the color and location of the water ice.

An ancient African genome has been sequenced for the first time from a 4,500-year-old skull that was discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia.

Toyota on Tuesday unveiled a car that can drive itself along a highway, the latest foray by a major manufacturer into the world of automated vehicles.

A monkey that sneezes when it rains and a "walking" fish are among more than 200 species discovered in the ecologically fragile eastern Himalayas in recent years, according to conservation group WWF.

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics has been won by Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald, for discovering how neutrinos switch between different "flavours".

Scientists have discovered a species of ancient mammal that survived the event that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Two farmers in rural Michigan have uncovered a woolly mammoth skeleton in a soybean field.

In quest for immortality, a Russian scientist has made a bizarre claim linking ancient bacteria to immortality.

A multi-billion-dollar robot dispatched to Mars to search for life must steer clear of promising "hot spots" for fear of spreading microbes from Earth, Nasa project scientists say.

Scientists think they can now tie dark streaks seen on the surface of Mars to periodic flows of liquid water.

Anurudh Ganesan took home the LEGO Education Builder Award for his refrigerated vaccine transporter.

Scientists claim to have achieved a record-breaking distance in quantum teleportation, reports Live Science

Scientists from 11 organizations create a digital ‘tree of life’ which is a genetic map 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes that all branched off over time from a common ancestor.

Science may have finally unlocked the key to the fountain of youth, 500 years after Juan Ponce de Leon’s death, from the mysteries that were revealed from testing the blood of world’s oldest woman.

Fresh images from Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft have captured a low-lying haze clinging to the surface of Pluto. The pictures also offer stunning views of the dwarf planet's rugged mountains and its sweeping plains.