After nine years of construction and controversy, China is set to officially unveil the world's longest sea bridge on Tuesday at a ceremony in Hong Kong.

Well, we didn't think it was possible, but we should have had more faith in our feathered corvid friends: crows just got even cooler. Researchers have discovered that crows don't just use single objects as tools; they can also make them out of mult

The entire time the Moon has been sitting up there, quietly orbiting Earth, it turns out it's actually been doing something incredible. Something that could help teach us about the early Universe.

There are plenty of animals that have the ability to count, even without the use of language. But of all the non-human species in the world, the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) appears to be the true mathematician.

More than eight decades after they were predicted to exist, physicists have found evidence of discrete units of matter that could help us better understand the electrical equivalent of ferromagnetism.

For decades the existence of weird space clouds in Earth's orbit has been speculative and controversial, but new research looks to validate their strange reality after all.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has just made history by making the closest ever approach to the Sun by a human-made object.

NASA announced Tuesday that Kepler, an orbital telescope that's been spotting and analyzing distant planets for the past nine years, has run out of fuel and will no longer carry out scientific research.

A major problem with Mars missions: Bringing enough fuel for a return journey.

Neanderthals are often depicted as barrel-chested, hunched-over cavemen, but a close inspection of their fossils tells a different story.

One of the difficulties in developing quantum computers to their full potential – and there are quite a few – is cutting out interference.

Almost on the cusp of the Mariana Trench, before it plunges down into the very bowels of the ocean, scientists have found something rare and wonderful. Sometime in 2015, an underwater volcano experienced a massive eruption, spewing molten magma int

On October 19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced the first-ever detection of an interstellar asteroid, named 1I/2017 U1 (AKA 'Oumuamua).

For the first time, scientists have identified the existence of a new DNA structure never before seen in living cells.

Millions of people around the world are affected by arachnophobia – the unreasonable fear of spiders, which evidence suggests could be an innate human response embedded by evolution inside the brain.

Whenever we hear of stars discovered that formed just after the Big Bang, they're very far away, in the far reaches of the visible Universe. But now astronomers have spotted something new: a star that's around 13.5 billion years old, right here in

No matter how abundant or renewable, solar power has a thorn in its side. There is still no cheap and efficient long-term storage for the energy that it generates.

A long life tends to run in the family tree. But even though genetics certainly has a role to play in our longevity, it isn't as important as we've assumed until now.

The sky above Earth is never completely dark. Even at night a soft glow emanates from the rim of the upper atmosphere. It's always there, right above us, but it's tricky to see from Earth.

According to some alarming tabloid headlines, three giant asteroids are skimming by Earth this weekend - one as long as a blue whale!