SpaceX is developing a massive rocket and capsule to transport large numbers of people and cargo to Mars with the ultimate goal of colonizing the planet, company chief and tech billionaire Elon Musk says.

More evidence of possible water plumes erupting from the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa has been spotted using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the US space agency said Monday.

India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle has launched three satellites each from India and Algeria, and one each from Canada and the United States, from one rocket into two different orbits.

There's something going on beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa. But what? NASA teases a "surprising" announcement, based on Hubble Space Telescope images of the celestial body, which many experts believe could contain a subsurface ocean, even possibly some form of life.

An international team of archaeologists excavating the famous Antikythera shipwreck in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece has found the remains of a human skeleton among the 2,100-year-old wreckage, reports Science Alert.

A dead man, found by hikers 25 years ago near the Austrian-Italian border, turns out to have died more than 5,000 years ago.

An explosion destroys a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk's SpaceX during routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Life on Earth is even older than we thought, says Australian scientists as they unveiled fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years.

Lucy, one of the best known ancestors of humans to ever roam the earth, may have died after a fall from a tree, University of Texas researchers said on Monday after studying her 3.18-million-year-old fossilized remains.

A previously unknown tectonic plate — one that has been swallowed up by the Earth — has been discovered in the Philippine Sea, according to a recent study, reports Live Science.

Scientists have discovered a planet that appears to be similar to Earth circling the star closest to the sun, potentially a major step in the quest to find out if life exists elsewhere in the universe.

Scientists say Oetzi the Iceman wore clothes made of brown bear pelt and roe deer when he died in the Alps 5,300 years ago.

Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co has come up with a new type of gasoline engine it says may make some of today's advanced diesel engines obsolete.

The Greenland shark, a big and slow-moving deep-ocean predator that prowls the frigid waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic, can claim the distinction of being the planet's longest-living vertebrate, with a lifespan perhaps reaching about 400 years.

A strange mummified creature has been discovered at the heart of a diamond pit in the Sakha Republic, in northern Siberia, according to International Business Times.

Scientist makes facial reconstruction of a young woman who died more than 3,700 years ago.

A team of scientists at a Belgian university say they have created a machine that turns urine into drinkable water and fertilizer using solar energy.

The first round-the-world solar powered flight has been completed, after the Solar Impulse aircraft touched down in Abu Dhabi.

A recent study suggests that a meteor impact 66 million years ago on an oil rich region of Yucatan Peninsula led to the death of the dinosaurs.

A team of researchers based at the University of the West of England in Bristol has developed a method for turning human effluent into electricity.