A Chinese farmer, long ridiculed for building robots from spare parts, is making money and winning awards from his hobby. His latest: a mustachioed, rickshaw puller.
Chemical signatures in 635-million-year-old rock suggest our planet once had an otherworldly atmosphere that might have helped melt millions of years' worth of deep freeze.
Like the wakes of cosmic speedboats, oddly shaped bow shocks reveal single stars careening through the cosmos at more than 112,000 miles (180,250 kilometers) an hour.
Among the surprises scientists have in store for the coming year: Sunken treasures, a new evolution debate, earlier Earths, and a host of revelations about the universe.
The first infrared panorama of the Milky Way's center has revealed a previously unknown population of massive stars scattered across the turbulent zone around our galaxy's core.
Asteroid debris around the remains of dead stars once like our sun show chemical signatures similar to the makeup of our solar system's terrestrial worlds, according to a new study.
The discovery of microscopic diamonds in 12,900-year-old soil supports the controversial idea that comet swarms caused a die-off of ice age mammals, a new study says.
A Texas-size asteroid may have sparked a U.S.-size landslide on ancient Mars, says a new study that hints at the origin of a mysterious red planet region.