The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance ...

Taking longer to drift into the dreaming phase – known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep – could be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease, potentially opening up new ways to diagnose and treat the ...

US time, a passenger jet and US Army helicopter collided at a low altitude near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and crashed into the Potomac River.

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

This NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image, acquired on May 13, 2018, during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows a carbon dioxide ice cap covering the region and as the sun returns in the spring, ...

Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...

You can stop a clock from ticking, but it's a lot harder to figure out how to stop humanity's relentless march toward self-annihilation.

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe.

In mice with Alzheimer's, the course of menthol for a six-month-long period was enough to stop the cognitive abilities and ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

It's generally accepted that exercise is a key element of losing weight. But this long-held view has been called into ...

The current study, led by researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK, suggests that by promoting certain bacteria in ...