Astronomers have been treated to a truly special look at some of the organic building blocks of the Universe, thanks to a newborn star that's been spotted around 1,300 light-years away from Earth.

Humans have learned to travel through space, eradicate diseases and understand nature at the breathtakingly tiny level of fundamental particles.

The humble honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths including addition and subtraction, shows new research published today in the journal Science Advances.

NASA has released the Kepler Space Telescope's final image of its full field of view.

Why can’t physicists agree on the value of this constant?

Black holes are the Universe's most jealously guarded secrets. We all want to know what's going on inside such exclusive space clubs, yet the best we can do is stand outside and listen to the beat.

The most distant object our species has ever visited, a space rock called 2014 MU69, is less snowman-shaped than scientists previously thought.

Religious beliefs, or a sense of spirituality, may cushion some people's brains against depression, according to new research.

Ethan Lindenberger, frustrated by years of arguments about his mother's anti-vaccination stance, staged a quiet defection on Reddit.

Rolling up to the crater's edge, the Opportunity rover took in a landscape unlike anything any Earthling had ever seen. A vast, meteorite-blasted expanse of volcanic rock and iron oxide extended for 15 miles, ringed by rugged mountains under a dusk

A new study shows that Mars may very well be volcanically active. Nobody's seen direct evidence of volcanism; no eruptions or magma or anything like that. Rather, the proof is in the water.

Sleep is pretty great. In humans, evidence suggests it has a whole range of benefits, including this one: it keeps the brain healthy by letting neurons prune unnecessary synaptic connections we make during the day.

Long-duration spaceflight does weird things to the human body, even at the molecular level, but so far there's no reason to think humans couldn't survive a two-and-a-half-year round-trip journey to Mars.

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Humans love to explore. Strangely enough even horrible places – like Mars. Let’s see how building a Mars base could work and how insanely nerve-wracking exactly it would be.

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SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, is working diligently on a wildly ambitious project: to permanently settle people on Mars.

Not all damaged cells die. Some stick around as senescent cells, unable to divide but still able to produce chemical signals — and they could play a major role in the battle against aging.

At first glance, the two rows of portraits at the top of this article just look like a bunch of average-looking people. The catch is, none of them exist. All of these faces are fakes, put together by artificial intelligence.

Yeah, okay, it's actually pretty disturbing.

Each year, cervical cancer affects over half a million people around the world, with one person dying of the disease every two minutes. It is one of the greatest threats to women's health we know of. It is also entirely within our power t