Seismic monitoring all over the globe registered a strange signal that repeated every 90 seconds over a whopping nine days, ...

When the New Horizons spacecraft swept past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it revealed two amazingly complex worlds and an active ...

A woman in Texas has died from a rare brain infection after flushing her nose with water stored in the tank of a recreational ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the Universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

A giant mouth-like hole in the Sun about as wide as five Jupiters is blasting hot Sun breath in Earth's general direction.

A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars ...

Physicists at Fermilab have made the most precise measurement ever of a long-disputed value – the magnetic 'wiggle' of an ...

When stimulated by the parasympathetic nervous system (sometimes known as the "rest and digest" system), it contracts to ...

A drug used to relieve the debilitating symptoms of menopause may also be reducing the risk of invasive breast cancer, a new clinical trial by Northwestern University suggests.

Global politics don't feel particularly cooperative at the moment, but which countries could actually feed themselves ...

From towering coastal redwoods to dinosaur-era Wollemi pines and firs that make the perfect Christmas trees, even our most ...

We all have our own chronotype – a tendency to sleep at certain times, with early birds and night owls at opposite ends of ...