Wolf 1069 b becomes the sixth-closest Earth-mass exoplanet to our solar system.

Snakes and mice don’t look alike. But much of what we know about skin coloration and patterning in vertebrates generally, including in snakes, is based on lab

Researchers at the University of Sussex are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to analyse different types of cancer cells to understand different gen

A group of researchers from universities around the world collaborated to create a shape-shifting robot that can reversibly switch between solid and liquid.

NASA's Perseverance rover has collected soil samples from Mars but now starts the hardest part of the mission.

Black holes are bizarre things, even by the standards of astronomers. Their mass is so great, it bends space around...

The oldest preserved vertebrate brain has been found in a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish skull that was removed from an English coal mine over a century ago.

Neuroimaging reveals how polyglots’ brains respond to both familiar and unfamiliar languages

Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, is featured in this optical image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

A snapshot of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is the most recent Picture of the Week from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

But Mars Right now, the temperature of the Earth is pretty much perfect for humans, at around 13.9 degrees Celsius, or 57 degrees Fahrenheit. Yes, that is much lower than “room temperature,” which is around 20 degrees C (or 68 F)—but remember, this is for the…

Rubble pile asteroids are extremely shock resistant which may explain how they've stayed together for almost as long as the solar system is old. It also has important implications for how we might deal with one that's heading towards the Earth.

Thanks to nanoscale drills activated by visible light, the stubborn athlete's foot infection that an estimated 70% of people experience at some point in their lives may become much easier to treat.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is part of a payload contract NASA has awarded for as much as $100 million over a decade.

Scientists have picked up radio signals from deep space. Where did they come from and does this mean aliens are out there?

Terence Dickinson, the Yarker resident who popularized astronomy in Canadian households through his books and TV and radio appearances, died Wednesday at age…

SpaceX has launched eight missions this year already.

Scientists have found the secret behind a property of solid materials known as ferroelectrics, showing that quasiparticles moving in wave-like patterns among vi

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A second look at a coccocephalus wildi fossil first unearthed over 100 years could yield ancient insights into gaps of evolutionary history.

Everything that happens on our planet above the ground is taking place in Earth’s protective envelope called the atmosphere.

Saturn, the one-time leader, comes in a close second with 83 confirmed moons.

Research at Aston University suggests that mechanical vibrations could enhance muscle function and balance control. Scientists in the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences studied the impact of stimulation on muscle spindles, which "speak" to the centr…

The NASA rover is approaching its second year on Mars (in Earth time), and there are overcast days ahead.