Exquisitely preserved fossils belonging to an extinct group of giant sharks have been discovered in Mexico, and may help ...

Eruptions on the Sun are a common occurrence, especially as we are around the peak of the Sun's activity cycle, known as the ...

F inally – FINALLY! – the world’s first flame-throwing robot dog is available for the general public to purchase in the US.

Astronomers taking a closer look at Uranus believe it could be filled with a lot more methane than we previously thought.

Recently, a team of researchers proposed that some of the most iconic examples of rupestral art are in fact lunar calendars, ...

The bacteria in question are strains of Enterobacter bugandensis. This is an opportunistic pathogen, meaning that it can ...

Comet tails are wispy things caused when the solar wind pushes the gas and dust released by subliming ice away from the comet ...

Along with the usual CUPOTY (Close-up Photographer of the Year) competition that runs each year, the organizers hold an ...

Reaching diameters of up to 9 centimeters (3.5 inches), it can’t quite compete with C. taxifolia for world’s largest ...

Women put the threshold for old age about two years later than men on average. There were some other factors that were found ...

Given its distance, it takes a long time to get anything to the probe and back. Voyager 1 is 22.5 light-hours away. They sent ...

A new study suggests that patients who are treated by female doctors have lower mortality rates and are readmitted less ...