Watch: Stephen Hawking explains what existed before the 'big, big bang'
The universe started off as a small singularity 13.8 billion years ago and has been expanding ever since but what came before has always been a mystery.
Watch this incredible video of a Shaolin monk piercing glass with a tiny needle
Though the entire exploit starts and ends in a split second, it can be seen in incredible detail thanks to a super slow motion camera.
Massive 1,400-year-old banquet hall uncovered in Japan's ancient capital city
The banquet hall was likely used for various rituals and sumo tournaments during the seventh century.
A space assistant? Cimon the 'floating' robot will join space station astronauts later this year
Cimon would simplify their routine tasks and serve as an early warning system to flag technical glitches.
Can life exist beneath the Martian surface? 'Weird' microbes found in Mars-like conditions could provide answers
Dormant subsurface microbes found on Earth could be present on Mars as well.
Proxima Centauri: Intense stellar explosion may have wiped out life from Earth's closest exoplanet
The massive stellar blast was nearly 10 times brighter than our Sun's largest solar blasts.
Russian state television airs shooter game footage to depict military action in Syria
The incident comes just a few months after Russia's Defence Ministry shared images from an iPhone game to suggest US was aiding Isis operatives.
Mars' tiny potato-shaped moons captured facing each other in stunning Nasa image
Nasa's Odyssey spacecraft was flying 5,615km away from Phobos and nearly 20,000km away from Deimos when the images were captured.
These monkeys attract females with their unusually large and floppy noses
This study is the first to suggest that male-to-male competition and female mating choices may have influenced the evolution of proboscis monkeys' nose.
Are we heading towards doomsday? Scientist suggests risk of a major war could be higher than believed
The computer scientist analysed data related to large wars that took place over the last two centuries.
Astronomers may find aliens in the coming decades but how will they know their intentions?
In a recent Reddit AMA session, futurist Michio Kaku detailed how the first contact with alien life could turn out.
Nasa captures Phoenix Mars Lander after 10 years, finds nothing but dust
The robotic spacecraft landed on the Red Planet in 2008 to explore its surface and atmospheric history and find evidence of water.
China's new next-gen Mach 5+ hypersonic jet could reach New York from Beijing in 2 hours
The craft features a unique four-winged design to reduce turbulence and drag at ultra-fast speeds.
Watch The Ring's sinister ghost crawl out of a TV in this augmented reality video
A developer used augmented reality platform Unity and simulated the entire scene with a few critical twists.
A 'happy' spacesuit? Scientists working on revolutionary new tech to keep astronauts stress-free in space
The Nasa-backed project could ultimately improve efficiency of the astronauts on deep-space missions.
Is ancient cave art drawn by our ancestors the earliest evidence of first human language?
Humans may have used places where sound echoed the most as "hot-spots" to visually represent language.
Revolutionary Nasa technique captures melting Antarctic ice like never before
The seven-year-long work on the system shows that West Antarctic ice sheets are melting at a rapid rate.
Racing birds could explain how giant dinosaurs moved and lived several million years ago
Scientists raced as many as 12 bird species on an enclosed track to understand and relate their locomotive traits to those of long-extinct dinosaurs.
Space Launch System: Watch Nasa fire up its next big rocket engine at highest-ever thrust capacity
The first mission of the vehicle will be an uncrewed flight to the far side of the moon sometime in 2020.
Birth of a supernova: This locksmith peeked into the sky and captured a star as it exploded
Victor Buso was testing a new telescope camera mounted on the top of his home when he made the unique discovery.
How did Egyptians build perfectly aligned Giza pyramids 4,500 years ago
An archaeologist noted a small error in Egyptian pyramids and conducted a series of tests to posit how ancient Egyptians would have built these massive structures.
Ancient Mayan relics, Ice Age human remains found hidden in world's biggest underwater cave
Researchers are exploring the depths of the merged Sac Actun and Dos Ojos underwater caves and believe the site could also be connected to other closely-located systems.
The final frontier: This is where Nasa's Cassini spacecraft plunged and burnt into pieces
Cassini was more than 600,000km away from Saturn when the images for the mosaic were taken.
Watch adorable newborn baby 'dumbo' octopus swimming around in this video
The creature was fully formed right after birth and had all required features to swim, eat, and survive in deep ocean waters.
Plants covered the Earth 100 million years earlier than previously thought, study finds
A group of researchers, which believed fossil records were too scattered to be used, made the breakthrough discovery using an approach called 'molecular clock'.
'Thunder Child' – Watch this boat with crew inside flip itself upright again after capsizing
The boat can reach speeds of up to 100kmph and will also be used by the Irish Navy in the near future.
Why Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is on 'precautionary standby'
The spacecraft's original mission was just for two years and has seen five extensions.
Nasa's Juno captures Jupiter's ravaging northern storms in stunning new image
The wide-angle image taken by Juno shows the northern area of Jupiter's north temperate belt and cloud formations swirling over it.
Monstrous black hole captured inside a giant 40-light-year-wide 'space doughnut'
The giant void is a supermassive black hole located at the centre of spiral galaxy M77.
Nasa celebrates Opportunity rover's 5,000th day on Mars, shares its first full selfie
Nasa planned a 90-day long mission for the rover in 2004 but Opportunity denied giving up and is still doing a great job on the Red Planet.
