Those who work odd hours in shifts risk heart complications.

A conversation is a two-way street where cooperation is paramount, and humans aren't the only great apes that put it...

Pluto really is crazy!

The transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly is so intense and radical that it's really hard to believe we're...

Could comets have seeded life on Earth?

Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft chief, billionaire, scientist and patent creator recently published a study in which he claims NASA...

Ancient Chinese villagers already mastered beer making more than 5,000 years ago, according to archaeologists who found beer-making equipment in...

At a Rice University hackathon, students Sam Shadwell and Chris Brown made a version of the popular programming language Python...

A faint, blue galaxy 30 million light years away from Earth could help us understand the conditions from the birth...

Despite its demotion from the planet status, Pluto continues to surprise us. As we receive more and more information from...

NASA just released the first ever topographic model of Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun.

It's a paradigm shift.

During a meeting with Norway’s Minister of Transport and Communications, Tesla's CEO Elon Musk claimed that since 'autopilot' was rolled...

NASA released a new set of images of Ceres - and they're a sight to behold.f

NASA astronauts have discovered a lonely planetary-like mass floating on its own, without a solar system. A young, free-floating world...

Using two sets of electrodes, scientists have successfully restored finger movement in a paralyzed patient for the first time in...

A team of NASA researchers has developed the first ever method for identifying and studying underground forest fungi from outer...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in a completely unexpected area of space, a sparse area where massive galaxies...

NASA's Opportunity rover beamed back this amazing photographed showing a dust devil swirling over the Martian surface. “This is one...

Having a single copy reduces lifespan by up to one year, while individuals having both copies stand at risk of...

At this point, it's pretty clear that a significant object smashed into Jupiter. The whole thing was captured on film...

A few years ago, the Cassini spacecraft made a surprising discovery: there are geysers erupting on Saturn's moon Enceladus, spewing...

It tells the story of a disappointed Babylonian customer who was shipped low-quality copper ore. The letter, written in cuneiform...

Researchers studying the Moon's ice have found evidence that Earth's moon wandered off its original axis roughly 3 billion years ago....

When researchers started raising 48 bacteria species aboard the International Space Station, they weren't really sure what to expect. They...

Five new studies describe Pluto and its atmosphere, showing that Pluto is much more active and complex than previously thought,...

Astronomers have discovered a new species of galaxies in the cosmic wilderness.

Scientists trained healthy volunteers with good eyesight to read Braille and found the visual cortex was connected to the tactile...

Swiss physicists have developed a new model to chart the early development of the Universe in better detail than ever...

Looks matter a lot. One recent research suggests that short men and overweight women earn on average £1,500 ($2,100) less...

When the MESSENGER spacecraft found carbon rich material on Mercury, researchers were surprised and couldn't quite explain the source. Now,...

One study estimates that over the next 35 years, nine African countries would have to spend $98 billion to $261...

Researchers have documented a more familiar curiosity: what dust particles on a comet look like.

NASA and ESA astronomers have pushed the Hubble telescope more than ever before.

Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to planet Earth on Thursday, after a landing in which everything went smoothly, as expected.

Astronaut Scott Kelly is returning home after a year in space, aboard the International Space Station. While there, Capt Scott...

Today is homecoming day for a record-setting crew. Three Expedition 46 crew members from the International Space Station are finishing packing...

The 2016 spring eclipse season is upon us!

Unearthed in southern China, this ancient fossil bears the most detailed and well preserved nervous system ever found.

“My intention is to build up a permanent base station on the Moon,” Jan Wörner, Director General of the European...

Alistair Evans of Monash University in Australia took a refreshing look at hominid teeth evolution. He found human evolution was...

Research narrowed down Planet Nine's orbit and confirmed there indeed seems to be a massive planet in the far reaches...

In what has to be one of the strangest declassifications, three Apollo astronauts on 1969’s Apollo 10 mission heard strange “music”...

Crash boom bang! Our planet and another protoplanet may have collided head-on in their early history.

New data provided by the New Horizons mission showed that water ice on Pluto is much more common than we...

China's National Space Administration released a trove of images from their lunar rover and they're spectacular. We're talking hundreds of tantalizing,...

Europe's laser communication network has taken off!

A duo of astronomers from CalTech may have found another planet, far away in our solar system.

Juno is part of NASA's New Frontiers program that wants to get up-close and personal with several planets in our solar system....

For the first time in history, astronomers have solid clues of water ice on a comet, confirming what many theories...