Astronomers have spotted helium escaping from LHS 1140b, an exoplanet orbiting in its star’s ‘habitable zone’.

A risky plan to turn night into day is one step closer to reality. Last week, US officials approved a mission to launch a giant mirror into space, where the device will reflect sunlight onto shadowed ...

Cases have hit record levels, and scientists are racing to pinpoint where the Cyclospora parasite entered the food supply.

Exposure to microgravity aboard the International Space Station causes mitochondria in human cells and in worms to produce ...

Republicans and Democrats worry about research theft and exploitation — but don’t agree on how to solve the problem.

But the inability to find these replication studies easily wastes research time and resources. If scientists aren't aware of ...

At the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou, students can listen to lectures given by AI avatars that ...

His hope, bolstered by a single study in rats 1, was that the injections would help him to regrow his thymus — a peculiar ...

Deep-sea drilling ships, sea-floor sensors and repurposed Internet cables are helping scientists to study the last unmapped ...

A mathematical formula inscribed on a wall at the Maya site of Xultun in Guatemala has revealed the name of an important Maya ...

A group of astronomers has detected a sugar molecule swirling inside a cloud of gas and dust near the centre of our galaxy.

Naked mole-rat queens produce a chemical that stops other females from reproducing. Credit: Neil Bromhall/Getty. Naked ...