The Deep Space Network is our best way to communicate with spacecraft beyond Earth’s orbit, and one of its three stations ...

To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing ...

Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients ...

Humans have been observing solar eclipses for millennia – carving, painting, sketching and finally photographing as the moon ...

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons ...

When researchers found evidence of a black hole flying out of its galaxy, nobody knew how that could happen. Now we have an ...

When it comes to supplements to stave off the effects of ageing, columnist Graham Lawton admits he is a hardened sceptic. But ...

For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the ...

The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150 years, ...

It is the year 2036. A patient struggling with depression and anxiety is referred to her local psychobiotics clinic where the ...

Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps as a ...

An analysis of supernovae argues that the universe’s expansion is not speeding up, so there is no need for dark energy to ...