• The ancient Peruvian mystery solved from space

    In one of the most arid regions in the world a series of carefully constructed, spiralling holes form lines across the landscape. Known as puquios, their origin has been a puzzle – one that could only be solved from space.

  • Kettering Cosmos: How school children exposed Soviet secret

    The Cuban Missile Crisis pushed the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon and no footprint has yet been left on the Moon. Yet one of the more peculiar twists of the Cold War involved a physics lesson at a provincial grammar school.

  • Loch Ness monster find turns out to be film prop

    A marine robot deployed in the waters of Scotland's Loch Ness finds the remains of a monster but it turns out to be a prop from a movie shot in 1970.

  • Scientists now know why North Pole is moving

    Scientists thought that they finally came to know the reasons behind the movement of North Pole.It's not terribly unusual for the rotational pole of a planet to shift, especially since the earth is not perfectly spherical. It tends to wobble a little as it spins on its axis, reports Business Insiders.

  • Planet Nine isn't harmful

    Astrophysicists outline what Planet Nine might be like - if indeed it exists.

  • Experts caution self-driving cars aren't ready for roads

    Self-driving cars are more likely to hurt than help public safety because of unsolved technical issues, engineers and safety advocates told the government Friday, countering a push by innovators to speed government approval.

  • New ransomware knows where you live

    A widely distributed scam email that quoted people's postal addresses links to a dangerous form of ransomware, according to a security researcher.

  • Lab-grown skin sprouts hair and glands

    Scientists in Japan have successfully transplanted mice with lab-grown skin that has more of the organ's working parts in place than ever before.

  • Siberian unicorn

    Scientists may have discovered the fossilised skull of a ‘Siberian unicorn’

    For decades, scientists have estimated that the Siberian unicorn -- a long-extinct species of mammal that looked more like a rhino than a horse -- died out some 350,000 years ago, but a beautifully preserved skull found in Kazakhstan has completely overturned that assumption.

  • Japan loses track of $273mn black hole satellite

    Dozens of space scientists are desperately scouring the skies after losing track of a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar Japanese satellite that was sent to study black holes.