Scientists have discovered that sunspots are not the only thing from the Sun that have a significant and varied impact on the Earth.

Fifteen women were among the 45 candidates who have qualified in the preliminary test for the country's second batch of astronauts selection completed yesterday, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing a researcher with the China Academy of Space Technology.

SIT on the steps of Mexico's El Castillo pyramid in Chichen Itza and you may hear a confusing sound. As other visitors climb the colossal staircase their footsteps begin to sound like raindrops falling into a bucket of water as they near the top. Were the

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Saturn's moon, Titan, has been the subject of excited rumours about possible extra-terrestrial life, and now it seems that the moon is shrouded in fog as well as mystery.

The Andromeda galaxy, the closest neighbour to our own Milky Way, has been growing by scooping up stars from smaller surrounding galaxies, a Canadian-led team of astronomers has found.

Europe's Stone Age has taken an edgy turn. A new analysis finds that human ancestors living in what is now Spain fashioned double-edged stone cutting tools as early as 900,000 years ago.

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole near the edge of the known universe. It lies within a galaxy the size of the milky way, which is 12.8 billion light years from earth.

The Planck observatory, launched in May, is surveying radiation that first swept out across space just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. The light holds details about the age, contents and evolution of the cosmos.

The pace of human evolution has been increasing at a stunning rate since our ancestors began spreading through Europe, Asia and Africa 40,000 years ago, quickening to 100 times historical levels after agriculture became widespread, according to a study.