The European Southern Observatory (ESO) say the system, named VFTS 352 (artist's impression pictured), lies about 160 000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Two videos show US cars using the new software swerving out of their lane. Tesla says the autopilot functionality is still in test mode and full 'hands-off' driving is not recommended.

California residents are being warned to prepare for El Niño - as Nasa revealed the phenomenon will be the most watched in history and showed off a new satellite animation of the phenomenon forming.

With each upward degree, global warming will singe the economies of three-quarters of the world's nations and widen the north-south gap between rich and poor countries, according to a new study.

Scientists at Georgia University found gratitude and believing that partner values you, directly influences how you behave in your marriage, as well as your levels of commitment.

German restoration specialists are restoring the 3,300 year-old mask at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo to remove a crust of dried glue on the beard of the boy pharaoh's funerary headdress.

Each of the pits and troughs - typically hundreds of meters across and tens of meters deep - were spotted in the area, informally known as Sputnik Planum.

Paleontologists have discovered a cliff-side in Utah brimming with Triassic era fossils that offers a rare glimpse of desert life in western North America early in the age of dinosaurs.

New expert analysis has debunked the theory that the photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding the gun he used to shoot JFK in Dallas, in 1963, was a faked composite of other pictures.

The Cyber IQ test was compiled by Slovakian internet security firm Eset. It includes a total of 16 questions. The first question is divided into eight true or false statements.

The 150,000-year-old snail shells with man-made holes (pictured) were discovered by a team of British archaeologists in Haua Fteah Cave in Libya.

The industrious rodents (stock image shown main) could help slow the flow of water heading to the sea by building dams, to create extra reserves of water, ecologists from Sonoma County in California claim.

The Aero-adaptive Aero-optic Beam Control (ABC) turret is the first turret ever to demonstrate a 360-degree field of regard for laser weapon systems on an aircraft flying near the speed of sound.

EXCLUSIVE: The footage, taken at Howletts Wild Animal Park near Canterbury, Kent, shows the baby dropping to the floor before his mother, Damara, spins and looks at him for the first time.

Almost 500 burials have been found on the site of Marsh Creek in California. Eight of these bodies were interred with an extra skull (pictured) and seven were buried missing their skull.

The x2 Sport Underwater Jet Pack is designed by Portsmouth-based firm, SCP Marine Innovation, which is raising money on Indiegogo to put the gadget into production.

Three underground tombs have been discovered near the city of Soli in Cyprus, along with luxury drinking vessels, a gold wreath (pictured), weapons and jewellery.

Speaking at WSJD Live event in Laguna Beach California, Apple's CEO, Tim Cook said autonomous driving is set to become more important.

Over the next week, 60,000 people who own Tesla's latest Model S car will be given the option to download the software wirelessly, or 'over the air', in North America, Europe and Asia.

Teacher Andy Brunning, based in Cambridge, explains how the glue's secret lies in cyanoacrylate, a substance once thought completely useless as it was so sticky.

The California-based social network told MailOnline it is looking into the battery life claims, but noted 'the issue is not caused by improper background location collection.'

A DNA study has found man's best friend may have evolved somewhere near what is now Nepal and Mongolia, researchers say.

The incredible images of Saya are actually computer generated - and the Japanese team who created her are set to bring her to life in a movie.

A neuroscientist at the University of Missouri claims defunct muscles behind our ears show that ancient neural circuits responsible for moving the ears may still respond to sounds.

Captured by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory, the region occurs where a magnetic field fails to loop back down to the sun's surface and instead sends out coronal material.

Boeing says an egg wrapped in the new material would survive a 25 story drop. They expect to use it to reduce the weight of planes, and is so light that is can sit on top of a a dandelion.

Researchers at Penn State University found that the gender gap in pay and performance review grew alongside the number of men in the profession and the complexity of the job.

The 'Coffin of the Future' design was created by Perfect Choice Funerals in Solihul in the West Midlands to see how different technologies could be incorporated into a funeral.

A complex question about a crocodile stalking its prey that baffled Scottish schoolchildren was far too challenging, examiners have admitted.

By downloading the free 'Forcy' app, iPhone users with iOS 9 can get some of the same features as the new iPhone 6s without paying out for the new model.

Experts at the Universities of Cardiff and Cambridge have used black and white images to show hallucinations may be caused by a natural process used by the brain to make sense of things.

A few yellow-bellied sea snakes, which have highly poisonous venom and usually call warm tropical waters home, washed up at the high tide at Silver Strand Beach in Oxnard in the past week.

Scientists discovered fragments of woolly mammoth skin along with other remains from six of the ice age giants on the Lyakhovsky Islands, off the coast of Siberia in the Arctic Ocean.

The team were able to activate the neurons in a mouse brain using lasers, sending the animal into REM sleep within seconds.

The computer simulations and model (pictured) were tested and built by computer scientist Nathan Myhrvold and University of Alberta palaeontologist Philip Currie.

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration issued its winter forecast, saying El Nino will leave a big wet but not necessarily snowy footprint on much of the United States.

The figures have been taken from California-based Intel Security's The Hidden Data Economy report. On the dark web, stolen cards (stock image) are worth $5 in the US, or $45 in the EU.

Single mothers who used a sperm bank to get pregnant said they and their children didn't suffer any greater than those in a traditional family unit, according to the study by Cambridge University.

Researchers at the University of Padova suggest the shroud travelled the world extensively, moving from Jerusalem to Turkey to France before ending up in its in Turin, Italy.

The jury in Madison, Wisconsin set the amount after around three hours of deliberations. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Warf) had asked for $399 million (£257 million).

The images were captured by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft during its 14 October flyby of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. Cassini passed 1,142 miles (1,839km) above the surface.

More than three quarters people asked said they judged their peers based on what they saw on their Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook profiles, according to the British survey by HTC.

Amazon is going after 1,114 perpetrators after it emerged that products were being pushed to the top of bestseller lists by bogus reviewers who stole identities to leave five-star feedback.

The image sequence, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, will show the sun-lit side of the Earth as it rotates, revealing the whole globe over the course of a day.

The incredible sweeping image was taken by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft from the furthest point of its orbit, around 6,151 miles (9,900km) from Mars.

The bike (pictured) was created by three designers in New York who describe it as an 'all-in-one bicycle' with built-in lights, phone dock and an automatic lock.

Scientists at the University of California Los Angeles say they have found distinct patterns of molecular markers in the genomes of gay men.

A strange series of lights above the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico have got alien hunters excited. Scientists, however, say they are probably an atmospheric phenomenon caused by the volcano.

The mosaics are made up of images of people during 'Pluto Time' which is a brief moment near dawn and dusk, when the illumination on Earth matches that of noon on Pluto.

Jeffrey Miller, assistant professor of English at Montclair State University, made the stunning discovery last fall while doing research at the University of Cambridge in the UK.

Researchers from Paris Diderot University used high-speed cameras to film the balloons swelling, touching a blade and bursting (pictured).

The Lumen torch (pictured), developed by New York-based Ross Zhuravskiy is fitted with a thermoelectric generator (TEG) that produces an electric current when touched.

The £400 vehicles, which feature a platform with a wheel on each side, can only be used on private property because they are too dangerous to ride in public, the Crown Prosecution Service said.