The C-3PO head, from "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" (1980), is the only known example of Threepio’s head from the second film to appear on the collector market. It carries an estimate of ...

The 90-million-year-old fossil of a tiny bird-like dinosaur has rewritten history, say scientists. They described the discovery of a near complete skeleton of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis as the ...

Maybe David Bowie was right with his spiders from Mars? Space scientists say they have spotted a hilly landscape that looks ...

" Free Willy " star Jason James Richter is imploring French authorities to urgently relocate two captive orcas from a closed marine park. The whales remain in tanks at Marineland Antibes near Cannes, ...

Doctoral student Aleksey Maro and his adviser Professor Robert Dudley, from the University of California, Berkeley, documented last year that the fruits chimps eat in the wild contain enough alcohol ...

The card - described as being in “mint condition” - is going under the hammer in the UK’s largest ever sale of Pokémon cards.

One of the oldest universities in Britain has elected its first female chancellor in its 600-year history. Dame Anne Pringle has been described as a “trailblazing diplomat” who was formerly British ...

Church bells, ruled too delicate for bell-ringers, are pealing again after 50 years - thanks to electric hammers and a touch screen.

An international research team found that butterfly caterpillars use sophisticated rhythmic signals to communicate with ants.

The heartbroken parents of a 2-year-old girl who died after contracting meningitis say they "weren't listened to" as her ...

Forget after-school programs and the lady next door; today’s parents are surrounding themselves with non-traditional villages, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 parents, including 1,000 who ...

For the first time, a much younger version of the Sun has been caught "blowing bubbles" in the galaxy. Astronomers using NASA ...