The Red Planet, called that for its rusty oxidized soil, looks vastly different to our planet's green and blue appearance.

For some time, seismologists have been aware of brief, subtle anomalies in underground electrical fields leading up to an earthquake, sometimes occurring as soon as a few weeks before the quake happens.

Exercise is good for everyone, but it doesn't affect us all in the same ways: some people might see boosts in levels of endurance, while others benefit from better blood sugar levels. Now scientists think they may have discovered one of the reasons

The Tsimane, an indigenous people who live in the Bolivian peripheries of the Amazon rainforest, lead lives that are very different to ours. They seem to be much healthier for it.

The average life expectancy in many developed countries is around 80 years old. Some individuals have famously lived for much longer - the oldest person who ever lived was 122 years old!

The more we find out about the human microbiome, the more we discover just how many facets of our existence are influenced by the invisible microscopic organisms that dwell inside us.

Squinting through their telescopes at the twinkling heavens, few 19th century astronomers would have imagined the cosmic wonders awaiting discovery in the century to come. 

When dealing with cancer, finding the most effective treatments as early on as possible can be vital. A new blood test could help doctors determine just that.

You've probably seen images of scientists peering down a microscope, looking at objects invisible to the naked eye. Indeed, microscopes are indispensable to our understanding of life.

Imagine you're walking into a forest, and you roll over a fallen log with your foot. Fanning out on the underside, there is something moist and yellow – a bit like something you may have sneezed out, if that something was banana-yellow and spread

We now have a three-dimensional map of one of the boundaries of the Solar System.

Although the night sky changes very little on human timescales, the Universe is not a static place.

Speculation has been rife about the contents of an unclassified report set to be released later this month from the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) task force.

The first astronauts arrived at China's new space station on Thursday in the country's longest crewed mission to date, a landmark step in establishing Beijing as a major space power.

Hold up your hands in front of your face. For most people, they will be mirrored copies of each other: You can hold them palm-to-palm and they will match up, but you cannot superimpose them.

The accelerating effort to understand the mathematics of quantum field theory will have profound consequences for both math and physics.

Venus may be a toxic hell-planet, but new evidence suggests it might have more in common than Earth than we realized.