Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet that is showered with so much radiation, its atmosphere eroded away long ago ...

The Hubble Space Telescope's stunning image of the dusty 'train-wreck' galaxy NGC 4753 reveals what may be one of the ...

On a clear day, sometimes a green flash appears with the sun on the horizon just after sunset or before sunrise. But why does ...

A new theory of quantum gravity, which attempts to unite quantum physics with Einstein's relativity, could help solve the ...

Humans can catch a huge number of diseases from animals, and these can be caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites or fungi.

A stunning photo of the peculiar parasitic plant species, Thismia thaithongiana, wins gold in the Plants and Fungus category ...

A surge in cases of a rare autoimmune disease during COVID-19 waves in England led to the discovery of a new syndrome.

It seems like everything orbits something in space. Moons orbit planets. Planets orbit stars. Stars orbit the centers of ...

Black hole singularities defy the laws of physics. New research presents a bold solution to this puzzle: Black holes may ...

"In some places in our genome, we're more Neanderthal than we are human," Joshua Akey, a professor of integrative genomics at ...

Non-Africans carry around 2% Neanderthal DNA in their genomes — yet there's one chromosome where DNA from our ancient cousins ...

Harvard and Google researchers have collaborated to map a tiny fragment of an adult human brain in unprecedented detail.