A newly discovered planet known as Proxima b was thought to have the potential to host life. But now scientists say that it is an "ocean planet" with water covering its entire surface.
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for their work in developing the world's first molecular machines that are a few nanometers long. The machines are too tiny to be seen with the naked eye.
Three British physicists have won The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2016 for their research on the exotic states of matter, which is considered to be a breakthrough in quantum physics.
Females will be included on the list of Chinese astronauts manning China's space station by 2022.
Scientists are alarmed by the discovery of a new earthquake fault line in southern California that is also parallel to the San Andreas fault line.
The biggest storm in this century, Hurricane Matthew, caused widespread devastation across Haiti before moving on to Georgia and South Carolina. Local authorities are still on high alert, and people are in a state of fear and panic.
Plasma "cannonballs" were seen shooting from a red giant star some 1,200 light years away in recent images captured by the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the V Hydrae system. Astronomers believe that these blobs of plasma are linked to the formation of planetary nebulae.
Scientists have discovered a super-faint galaxy which is one of the hundreds of galaxies orbiting our solar system. The galaxy named 'Virgo I' is currently occupying the imaginations of space scientists across the world.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos oversaw the successful test of Bue Origin's new suborbital spaceship on Wednesday.
