Nasa has cleared the Phoenix Mars Lander for touchdown on the Martian polar icecap on 26 May.

The craft is now preparing for the final series of actions that will slow it from around 13,000mph before it descends to the surface.

A man has escaped from his Austrian jail cell by squeezing through a food hatch in the door, police said on Wednesday.

Cars and balls seem to roll uphill, people appear able to stand at impossible angles - all in contradiction to the laws of gravity and physics. What’s really happening at these curious locations?

It’s three and a half years since Erin Hoffman became internet famous. Better known as “EA Spouse”, she was the person who unmasked the crushing working conditions in some parts of the games industry.

Birth of chicken step by step.Pictures of formation of an embryo.

Chickens and dinosaurs may have more in common than was previously thought after researchers discovered close ties between the two creatures.

The link between the bird and the Tyrannosaurus Rex has been revealed in a protein study dating back...

New images taken by the Hubble space telescope show galaxies spinning, sliding and smashing into each nother, wreaking stellar destruction that will give birth to new and larger galaxies.

A female fish which hasn’t had full sex for at least 70,000 years is baffling scientists.

Photographs of the ‘Tree People’ by George Steinmetz.

In the wake of centuries of effort to seek deep connections between music and mathematics, a team today concludes that music does have geometry.