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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

Dust from the Sahara desert will cloud the skies of the US southeast this week in an annual weather event that doesn't always ...

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 ...