The Russian space agency says that its out-of-control spacecraft has burnt up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere.

Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have confirmed NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft impacted the surface of Mercury, as anticipated, at 3:26 p.m. EDT.

An artwork that gets your feet wet is about to be unveiled in Venice at the 56th International Biennale.

The Large Hadron Collider smashes protons together for the first time since early 2013.

Three babies are saved from a life-threatening condition by using 3D printed windpipe splints to help them breathe, a pilot study reveals.

By inexpensively turning salt water into drinking water using sustainable solar power, a team from MIT in the US has not only come up with a portable desalination system for use anywhere in the world that needs it, but it’s just won the 2015 Desal Prize - a competition run by USAID to encourage better solutions to water shortages in developing countries, reports sciencealert.com.

Europe's Sentinel-1a satellite has got its first good look at the aftermath of Saturday's big quake in Nepal.

A faulty app caused American Airlines to ground dozens of its jets.

Hackers can take copies of fingerprints used to unlock the Samsung Galaxy S5 phone, claim security researchers.

A Japanese magnetic levitation train has broken its own world speed record, hitting 603km/h (374mph) in a test run near Mount Fuji.

Although Arctic sea ice set a record this year for its lowest ever winter extent - that was not the case for its volume, new data reveals.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is three months from returning to humanity the first-ever close up images and scientific observations of distant Pluto and its system of large and small moons.

The New Horizons probe, which is bearing down on Pluto, captures its first colour image of the distant dwarf planet.

Life on Earth began more than 3 billion years ago, evolving from the most basic of microbes into a dazzling array of complexity over time, but how did the first organisms on the only known home to life in the universe develop from the primordial soup?

The US government has refused to let Intel help China update the world's biggest supercomputer due to concerns about its nuclear research.

Plucking hairs in a precise pattern can make even more pop up in their place, a US study suggests.

Mars has thousands of glaciers buried beneath its dusty surface, enough frozen water to blanket the planet with a 3.6-foot(1.1- meter) thick layer of ice, scientists say.

The social media site Facebook users feel depressed as they begin comparing what's happening in their lives to others.

Hacking attacks that destroy rather than steal data or that manipulate equipment are far more prevalent than widely believed.

The Large Hadron Collider has restarted, with protons circling the machine's 27km tunnel for the first time since 2013.