BRITS are being warned over an "unprecedented" number of killer Asian hornets set to invade the UK this spring.The hornets, called Vespa velutina, have strong…
THE UK has completed the build of its first-ever Mars rover, designed to search for signs of alien life on the Red Planet in 2030.…
AN INCREDIBLY rare celestial display is set to be visible tonight, where seven planets will align in an arc across the sky. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus,…
THE Moon is set to turn colourful shades of red, pink and even purple over the UK soon, as lunar disk goes through a partial…
A POWERFUL telescope floating in space has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring of light around a nearby galaxy. The Euclid telescope, from the European…
STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. "One of the best planet parades in…
IT is widely regarded as one of the world's most beautiful lakes - owed to its unique reddish pink colour. But tourists must not swim…
HISTORIANS have mapped out a minute-by-minute account of the final moments in Pompeii as gas and ash transformed locals into glass.A staggering 16,000 people were…
THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim.Experts had believed our…
A GIANT horned dinosaur species has been unearthed - despite the bones' destruction in World War Two. The groundbreaking discovery of the 10-metre-long skeleton was…
EARTH is littered with terrifyingly deep, wide, and mysterious holes – and some are especially creepy.The Sun has rounded up some majorly scary holes from…
THIS year looks set to be another blockbuster year for daring space missions, from China's asteroid retrieval to the first-ever private space station. Here are…
THE true face of the man that inspired Santa Claus can be seen for the first time in almost 1,700 years, after scientists reconstructed his…
A MYSTERIOUS message carved into a statue forged by King Midas has been read for the first time in more than two millennia.A historian managed…
WHAT looks like a grisly, sun-scorched human face has been found half-buried in the sand on Mars by Nasa's Perseverance rover. An image taken by…
STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month, with two separate meteor showers to be visible in the sky. And the first meteor shower, dubbed…
A robot on the hunt for signs of alien life on Mars has taken a huge battering, shock new images released by Nasa show.The Curiosity…
STARGAZERS are in for a double delight next week as September's supermoon coincides with a partial lunar eclipse.The rare twin event is set to occur…
A GIRL of ten discovered 200million-year-old dinosaur footprints while playing on a beach.The child, named only as Tegan, spotted a series of similar shaped large…
WATER that could cover Mars with a mile-deep ocean has been found beneath the red planet's surface, scientists says.Evidence for an enormous reservoir of liquid…