Synthesizing new proteins – the building blocks of biological life – is a scientific field of immense potential, and a newly developed AI model promises to create instructions for new proteins way ...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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.

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 ...

The levels of caffeine in your blood could affect the amount of body fat you carry, a factor that in turn could determine your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.

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

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

A mouse with no biological mother has survived to adulthood in China – a major scientific achievement that's been years in the making.

Our planet's Moon might look dead and stagnant from our vantage point here on Earth, but a new study suggests it was moving about just a 'hot minute' ago.