In early February, an Australian man in his 40s became the first person in the world to leave hospital with a virtually ...

Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history.

Children under eight should not drink slushy ice drinks containing glycerol, researchers have warned after a string of hospitalisations in the UK and Ireland.

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Astronomers have been looking for exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star, the nearest solitary star to Earth at just 5.96 ...

A trove of fossilised dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock gathering dust inside an Australian school, ...

What's good for your aging gut may also be good for your aging brain. The first study of its kind in twins found that taking ...

When we think of climate change, we may consider extreme weather events – record-breaking heatwaves, heavy downpours and ...

Small stars that are far away tend to be faint and hard to see. De Ruiter and her colleagues used the Multiple Mirror ...

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you'll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right ...

The race between Jupiter and Saturn for the most moons in the Solar System may have just finally come screeching to a halt.

The X-37B is a reusable robotic space plane operated by the US Space Force. It resembles a miniature space shuttle at just ...