How should humans go about searching for alien life? After all, astronomers have already identified thousands of candidate planets – but in new research, scientists have come up with a way to refine what we're actually looking for.

Last July, California's Death Valley endured the hottest month ever measured on the planet. This July ended up even hotter.

If you're finding it hard to get your thoughts straight, dehydration could be to blame. An analysis of previous research has found a link between dehydration and poor performance in tasks that need serious focus or advanced mental processing.

There are a lot of rocks up there in space, whizzing about and occasionally smacking into other objects. Here on Earth, our atmosphere burns up most of the pebbles that come hurtling our way.

There is a very strange object floating around our stellar neighbourhood and it has astronomers intrigued.

Despite decades of ongoing research, scientists are trying to understand how the four fundamental forces of the Universe fit together.

We've only been to the Moon a handful of times. But we've already set our sights on a far more ambitious mission: colonize Mars. If you believe the hype, it may happen in just a few decades. Elon Musk anticipates that SpaceX's BFR (big f–king rocket) will…

Using a new holographic technology, researchers have been able to twist and manipulate a beam of laser light to tie it into knots, creating complex, three-dimensional light structures. Why? To study what happens to the space around them, of course.

Trees are ubiquitous around the globe. Everyone knows that a tree grows up from a seed in the ground. It's a normal occurrence.

The electromagnetic waves around Jupiter are much, much stronger around two of its moons. Around Europa, electromagnetic wave activity is 100 times stronger. And around Ganymede - the largest moon in our Solar System - it jumps to a massive 1 milli

When gold hunters in Russia collected the yellowish stone in 2016, they thought it might contain a precious metal. It didn't - but what it did contain was far more rare and valuable.

A galaxy in nearby space called Segue 1 is quite the oddity. It's very small, and very faint, it hangs out very close to the Milky Way, and no one knows quite where it came from.

We all know that the International Space Station (ISS) is not a huge space. It's no palace, but there's six people living on it right now, so it has to be at least liveable, right?

The macro world as we know it is governed by Newton's laws of motion and gravity - what goes up, must come down.

For the first time, scientists have watched death moving through a cell, and measured the speed at which it travels.

Way out past Pluto, in the region of asteroid-filled space known as the Kuiper belt, NASA probe New Horizons just got a tantalising hint of a long-sought structure in the outer Solar System.

If planets come any hotter than KELT-9b we're yet to find them. Not only does this roasted ball of gas win first prize for scorching temperatures, it can now claim to be the first planet known to have free-roaming atoms of iron and titanium in its

Scientists just worked out a way of rapidly producing a mineral capable of storing carbon dioxide (CO2) - giving us a potentially exciting option for dealing with our increasingly overcooked planet.

The new treatment will serve as both diagnosis and treatment of malignant tumors. This breakthrough in the technologies of cancer diagnosis…

Their name means 'monster', and once upon a time, ancient sailors feared that's exactly what these giant creatures of the deep were.