SCIENCE

Facebook users were duped this week into watching fake "live footage" of the celestial treat that was the "super blue blood moon", a fraud that racked up millions of views.

The military force was a powerful coalition of Norse warriors who came together under a unified command to invade the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that constituted England in 865 AD.

Although physicists have theorised the existence of odderon for decades, no one has been able to actually see the elusive subatomic particle.

The simulation provides new insight into how galaxies are formed, the origins of magnetic fields, how black holes influence dark matter distribution and more.

The discovery is not only the first of its kind but also points to some kind of ritualistic burial where people could have been intertwined in death.

In all, about five to six Russian tourists should be able to enjoy the trip that could cost $100m.

Most psychologists have thought that authoritarianism in North America may be a uniquely right-wing phenomenon.

Two Indonesian men arrested for shooting a critically-endangered orangutan multiple times before beheading the animal, have said they were acting in self-defence.

Blazars produce vast, hyper-fast jets of incredibly intense radiation and material, which can stretch for hundreds of thousands of light years.

The development can open up several avenues for technologies that rely on light for the storing and passing of information, including quantum computing.

Nasa focuses on encouraging astronauts to eat more in space to reduce dangerous body and bone mass loss in orbit.

Tools made by either early Homo sapiens out of Africa or a close evolutionary cousin found in south India.

Day Zero - the day when Cape Town, South Africa could be the world's first major city to run out of water - is approaching.

Although SpaceX wasn't planning to recover the booster, it still managed to survive its fall into the Atlantic Ocean.

The slab of rock, nearly as big as a dining table, tells how mammals and dinosaurs interacted in the Cretaceous era.

Sixty years ago, the US launched its first satellite - Explorer I - into space, kick-starting decades of scientific discovery.

Stone Age grave on banks of River Vecht gives up its secrets to archaeologists.

Lupus 3, is located 600 light years from Earth within the constellation Scorpius, near the centre of the Milky Way.

Trade in hippopotamus teeth is legal but animal is listed as vulnerable by International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Naked mole rats are bizarre, practically hairless rodents, which feel very little pain and are resistant to cancer.

The photo is a combination of 16 different shots taken by the Curiosity rover's MastCam imager from a vantage point.

The Surrey Space Centre is leading a Europe-wide initiative to tackle a truly global problem through the RemoveDebris mission.

The Earth experienced a geological lull, almost like a mid-life crisis during the Palaeoproterozoic geologic era.

Parts of the ancient Nazca lines in Pery were damaged after a truck driver ignored warning signs and entered the zone.

Scientists melted a tiny bore hole through 300 metres of ice in a slowly yet constantly moving Antarctic ice shelf.

A killer whale named Wikie has been taught how to speak through its blowhole and may be able to have basic 'conversations' with humans some day.

Tomorrow, a total lunar eclipse - which will be visible from Asia, Australasia and North and Central America - will coincide with a 'blue moon' and a 'supermoon'.

Panicked doctors euthanized the baby soon after the experiment due to ethical concerns and fear of the word getting out, according to the claims.

Apheloria polychroma was discovered in the southeastern US and can be found in a wide variety of colour patterns.