I play GTA for the fact that you can leave the story and just go on a rampage around the city, making your own fun and seeing just how far you can jump your car, bike, boat or whatever. This is what it'll look like in GTA V. Read More >>

Snapped from Concordia Research Station in Antarctica, this is a photo of the last sunset the base will see for the next three months of permanent darkness. Read More >>

Car crashes are completely awful things. Shattered glass, twisted metal and thousand kilo machines reduced to child's playthings. And that's not even considering the possibility of accidental deaths. Photographer Nicolai Howalt captured the horrors of a car crash by photographing the silent disaster of the aftermath. Read More >>

Dams are as old as civilisation itself, but it’s only been within the last century that humans harnessed the construction savvy to build structures that could submerge valleys and create lakes. Read More >>

A few months ago, NASA sent some Nexus Ones into space to see if a smartphone could hold its own against the million pound satellites already up there. The answer is "not exactly." When it comes to photography, it's probably best to stick with the space-professionals. Read More >>

This picture may be simple — monochromatic, a deep black background, and just a hunk of rock to admire — but it's also stunningly beautiful. Read More >>

That's no moon... No, wait, that is the Moon, ushering in the dawn as the ISS flies over. Being an astronaut must be so damn cool when you get to see this kind of thing every day. Maybe Virgin Galactic will be able to give us a shot at witnessing that kind of thing for ourselves soon. You only need £130,000 a seat. [Chris Hadfield] Read More >>

Rockstar's dumped an absolute motherload of GTA V screenshots onto the internet for your viewing pleasure. From cars, choppers, quad-bikes and motorbikes, to jet fighters, skydiving, mini-guns and scuba, this thing is going to be epic. There's even some sort of Mission Impossible moment, clinging to the glass of a high-rise office block. Ethan Hunt eat your heart out. Read More >>

Is this a picture of a soldier shooting lasers against the night sky? How did they make the beams bend? They twist and turn like bolts from a Tesla coil! Sadly, no. It's just a fantastic picture of a US Marine launching a PL-87 Stinger Missile at a flying drone in a training exercise. It's so gorgeous. Read More >>

Not too long ago, NASA's Cassini spacecraft managed to get some awesome photos of Saturn's 225,000 mile polar hurricane. It looked pretty intense in black and white, but this new coloured version is one blood-red beauty. Read More >>

In case you missed it last night, Virgin Galactic successfully performed its first rocket-powered test flight of the SpaceShipTwo. In other words, space tourism is nigh, and this is what it looks like. Read More >>

This might look like some kind of space ship — but it's actually a model of a supersonic Boeing airliner, being tested in NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Read More >>

If ever there was something bubbling out of the primordial ooze it's these little pools of light. There's something that's just gloopy and compelling about them. This is KIHOU, a series produced by tangent, a London/Tokyo design studio. Read More >>

Everyone wants a hoverboard. Everyone. Don't even try to disagree. But while you can buy a lame-o, non-working Back to the Future-style 'board, it's just not the real thing. Crazy optimists can hold out hope for 2015, but in the meantime, this clever little picture by François Dourlen is probably the best we can do. Read More >>

Given you rarely see owls in the day outside of a zoo or museum setting, you've probably never thought of them as stone cold killers. But when hunting at night they can be as terrifying as a hawk, particularly if you happen to see them swooping in from a mouse's point of view. Read More >>