Researchers have identified genetic material from a vast range of organisms contaminating the shroud, said to have wrapped ...

An accounting of all the water that should have been and gone on Mars’s surface has come up with a discrepancy that shows ...

The physics of plant-based milks is strange. Researchers are only now beginning to understand it, and they hope that doing so ...

One in 10 homes tested in the UK, Italy and the Netherlands have dangerous levels of benzene because of slow leaks from gas ...

A female sperm whale has been filmed giving birth for the first time, supported by 10 adult females who lifted the calf out ...

The same principles that help astronauts stay strong in microgravity can help us all resist the slow collapse of ageing – and ...

Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...

CERN is working on building an antimatter delivery service. The project passed a big test by successfully transporting 92 ...

Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis ...

Both artists and astronomers are, in a way, translators. They convert what we can see into a story we can tell. In Cosmos: The art of observing space, a new exhibition at the Royal West of England ...

Catching a comet in the process of falling apart is difficult, but a coincidence let astronomers see one in more detail than ...

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...