An Indian rocket has put five UK satellites in orbit.

A space telescope designed to look into the furthest-most reaches of space at some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe has, once again, been turned to face our nearest star, producing a rare and beautiful insight to our X-ray sun.

MegaBot USA wants to create a giant humanoid robot tournament and last week challenged, the world's only other giant robot maker, Japan's Kuratas Mecha to join in.

A young Bangladeshi engineer invents the “Smart Wheel Chair” to help physically challenged people operate their wheel chairs through any android smart phone.

Researchers at the European Space Agency harness the natural lensing properties of cosmic gravity to get a closer look at a black hole.

A spacecraft of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), New Horizons, cut off communications with Earth as it was headed toward Pluto on July 4.

A ring-like filament of stars wrapping around the Milky Way may actually belong to the galaxy itself, rippling above and below the relatively flat galactic plane. If so, that would expand the size of the known galaxy by 50% and raise intriguing questions about what caused the waves of stars.

Security researcher Ben Caudill sets to formally unveil the "ProxyHam," a router that masks its user’s identity by letting them hide several miles away from it.

A California mother and her teenage son reunite after 15 years apart, all thanks to an old family photograph post to Facebook.

Solar Impulse, the aeroplane that is powered only by the sun, has landed in Hawaii after making a historic 7,200km flight across the Pacific from Japan.

On Tuesday night, Jupiter and Venus will culminate a month-long dance with what astronomers say will be a dazzling display, appearing just a fraction of a degree apart from one another in the night sky--a show that some astronomers say could account for the "Star of Bethlehem" mentioned in the Bible reports CNN.

A dog is not just a pet; rather he is a friend, a partner and a defender. His master is in turn his life, his love and his leader.

A mission by an unmanned SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket ends in failure after it explodes after lift-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The day will officially be a bit longer than usual on Tuesday, June 30, 2015, because an extra second, or "leap" second, will be added.

Nasa has reached out to the scientific community to help identify landing sites for a manned mission to Mars even though a trip by astronauts to the Red Planet is expected only by the late 2030s.

New Zealand's South Island, and some parts of Australia, has been treated to the Aurora Australis, a natural light display in the sky.

A hairy crab that was dubbed "The Hoff" when it was first found in Antarctic waters has now been given a formal scientific description and name.

Astronomers discover 854 "ultra dark galaxies" filled with mysterious dark matter in the Coma Cluster, one of the richest cluster of galaxies containing thousands of systems reports The Times of India.

A bizarre invasive worm with its mouth in the middle of its belly has been found in the United States for the first time, according to new research reports LiveScience.

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology found a way to encode data onto DNA—the very same stuff that all living beings’ genetic information is stored on—that could survive for millennia