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.

NASA plans to announce on Aug. 3 the astronauts assigned to the test flights and maiden voyages of SpaceX's Dragon capsule and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.

For the first time, Einstein's theory of general relativity has been confirmed in a new context: in the most extreme gravitational field in the Milky Way, created by Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.

The Large Hadron Collider below Switzerland and France has just accelerated its first atoms to almost the speed of light, and the results have "exceeded predictions".

No. On top of all the other bad things we can attribute to plastics pollution (the damage to marine life, the leaching of toxic chemicals into the environment, and making gross and unsightly beaches, etc.), a team at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa’s Center…

Forget language, or smarts, or even our flair for art. Our species represents the last of its kind simply because we've pushed into environments others never dared to tread.

From mobile phones to microwave ovens, the modern world virtually glows with high-frequency electromagnetic radiation (EMF).

Liquid water alone doesn't make life possible, so a team of scientists looked for planets that receive enough ultraviolet radiation to create RNA.

Touching a star isn't easy. The sun is an enormous, searing-hot orb of plasma that generates a chaos of magnetic fields and can unleash deadly blasts of particles at a moment's notice.