NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a large black hole inside the neighbouring ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

Wellcome, a major London-based charity, is exploring options to support science and research, given cuts to health and research funding led by the United States, its chief executive said on Wednesday.

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

Massachusetts’ energy and environmental agencies were again able to access federal grants related to climate change on Monday ...

Attorney generals from 22 states have filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for slashing funding for medical and ...

Around a galaxy just 590 million light-years away, astronomers have discovered a stunning example of one of the rarest ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

If the ideal boiled egg has a meltingly soft centre and firm white, scientists have developed what they say is the perfect method. Alas, it takes 32 minutes.