In the coming decades, NASA and other space agencies hope to mount some ambitious missions to other planets in our Solar System.

Most of us have probably felt sleepy on a car journey, but it's not always due to an early start, or a long day, or a lack of caffeine.

As the Ancient Greeks used to say, "Know Thyself." It probably was meant a little more philosophically that we're choosing to interpret it, but learning about how your body is put together and why is some seriously fun stuff.

If you're a vocal science lover, there's one question we're pretty sure you've been asked at least once: "If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?"

A new HIV vaccine candidate has been trialled in humans and monkeys, with promising results.

Astronomers have found the brightest object ever discovered in the early Universe, 13 billion light-years away - a quasar from a time when our Universe was just seven percent of its current age.

In recent years, there has been a concerted effort to protect children from failure in order to safeguard their fragile self-esteem. This seems logical – failure is unpleasant.

Just a week after publishing a new tally of space junk, the European Space Agency was forced to nudge a satellite out of danger.

Zebra stripes do not help regulate their body temperature. That's the conclusion reached by researchers in Hungary, trying to narrow down a longstanding mystery about the animals' amazing coats.

Last year, scientists announced the discovery of an exoplanet just 11 light-years (3.37 parsecs) from Earth. Not just any exoplanet - a rocky one, that looks like it might just be habitable. Now another team has taken a closer look, and found evide

A clinical trial testing the health benefits of an experimental drug in a new combination has shown promising results, safely reducing infections in elderly volunteers around 40 percent by reversing the effects of aging on the immune system.

Finally, scientists have found the source for a high-energy cosmic neutrino coming from outside our galaxy.

The global dust storm currently raging on Mars shouldn't disrupt the touchdown of NASA's InSight lander this fall, agency officials said.

Phil and Anthony Butler aren't just father and son. The physics professor and bioengineering professor (respectively) are also business partners. And this week, their company, MARS Bioimaging, unveiled a first-of-its-kind X-ray scanner 10 years in

We know about the devastating effects of Alzheimer's, but scientists still aren't certain about how it gets started. New research lends credence to an older idea, that bacteria and viruses could be contributing to the root causes of the brain disea

A mega new telescope has captured the clearest view to date of the centre of our Milky Way.

Mr. Steven now has some more margin for error. SpaceX has outfitted the speedy boat with a much larger net, to give it a better chance of plucking payload fairings — the nose cones that surround spacecraft during launch — out of the sky.

Scientists have created a tiny rotor that rotates at speeds of up to 60 billion revolutions a minute – the fastest-spinning human-made rotor in history, and 100,000 times faster than your average dental drill.

We finally know where all that Martian water has been hiding!

A new video tells you what the pharmaceutical company doesn't want you to know: a miracle cancer cure, discovered in 1816 and derived from moss, totally works and is easy to purchase online.