As an astrophysicist, I am always struck by the fact that even the wildest science-fiction stories tend to be distinctly human in character. No matter how exotic the locale or how unusual the scientific concepts, most science fiction ends up being about …

Spreading your genes through procreation is a biological imperative, and for most animals, this requires, well, staying alive to actually produce babies.

Kim Kardashian appears to now be a published scientist. If that hasn't already blown your mind, just wait till you see who she's been working with. The reality TV star and social media influencer is listed as an author on a paper published in a scientific…

Scientists have produced the first human corneas to be 3D-printed in a lab, showing how we could potentially generate this vital bit of anatomy ourselves – and save millions of people from blindness related to corneal damage along the way.

The women, on the other hand, were fine.

Powering cold, hard mechanics with muscle tissue is a promising idea that so far hasn't delivered awe-inspiring results.

Dark matter, or at least a portion of it, could be carrying an incredibly weak electrical force - equal to about a millionth of an electron's charge. That's according to data from the Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionisation Signa

A rare and endangered blue whale has been spotted in the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment has reported, the first time that the largest of all the animals has been seen in these waters.

We haven't found any evidence of life on the 3,730 confirmed exoplanets identified to date. Maybe we've just been looking in the wrong place?

Whenever you see blood outside your body, it looks red. Why?

The incredible gravitational wave event that gave us colliding neutron stars and pictures of colliding neutron stars is the astronomical gift that just keeps on giving. And it looks like it's given us yet another new thing to study - the lowest-mas

Human eyes are not usually thought of as the best of the best in the animal kingdom. Cats can see really well in the dark, and some spiders have 12 eyes to stare back at you.

In the far reaches of the Solar System, objects go into some weird orbits, and astronomers have been baffled as to why.

Using the whole Solar System as a lab, and our most advanced time-keeping instruments for equipment, scientists have helped to verify the 'Einstein elevator' hypothesis – one of the central components of his general theory of relativity.

NASA's New Horizons probe - the same one that gave us stunning photos of Pluto - has just woken up, approximately 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) from home.