Near what is today the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi, some 1,400 years or so ago, somebody buried a whole bunch of documents in a jar.

A photo of our galactic neighbour Andromeda has revealed a surprise subject - an X-ray source initially thought to be inside Andromeda, but which turned out to be 1,000 times farther away.

The search for dark matter continues, in part through China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) – and the probe just picked up a suggestion of something on its instruments that suggests we could be getting closer to the big discovery.

Talk about a close escape: the image that you can see above is a CT scan of the skull of a 45-year-old US man who admitted himself to an emergency room, after being shot with a .22 calibre pistol.

Doctors in Miami faced an unusual ethical dilemma when an unconscious, deteriorating patient was brought into the emergency room with the words "Do Not Resuscitate" across his chest.

The last time any country put boots or, rather, little metal feet, on the Moon was in 2013, when China landed its Yutu rover there. Before that, you'd have to look back to the 1970s to find anything built by Earthlings that camped out on the s

Imagine an apple floating in front of you. Now see if you can rotate it around in your mind. Look at it from the top, bottom – does it have any blemishes? How clearly can you see it?

"The oceans cover 70 percent of the surface of our planet, and yet they are still the least explored," says Sir David Attenborough in the opening sequence of the recent BBC documentary series Blue Planet II. "Hidden beneath the waves

In May 2017, researchers at Google Brain announced the creation of AutoML, an artificial intelligence (AI) that's capable of generating its own AIs.

In the early 1960s, scientists developed the gravity-assist method, where a spacecraft would conduct a flyby of a major body in order to increase its speed. Many notable missions have used this technique, including the Pioneer, Voyager, Galileo, Ca

As effective as antibiotics often are at helping us fight off infection and the associated bacteria, they might also be reducing the bacteria-killing power of the body's own immune cells at the same time, according to new research.

We spend more than a third of our lives in bed - but that place can quickly blossom into a "botanical park" of bacteria and fungus, according to New York University microbiologist Philip Tierno.

In a series of tweets on Friday night, Elon Musk said he plans to launch his red Tesla Roadster to Mars in 2018.

For women with uterine factor infertility who want to be mothers, the calculus has always been heartbreakingly simple: No uterus means no pregnancy.

Japanese automobile giant Toyota is making some exciting moves in the realm of renewable, clean energy.

In the cold darkness of interstellar space, way past the Kuiper belt, Voyager 1 is continuing its journey out as far from Earth as it can go. Right now, it's over 20 billion kilometres (13 billion miles) from our planet - around 140 times the dista

When the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica surrenders itself to the ocean, the results can be pretty dramatic to watch – and, as scientists explain, worrying.

A priest in 18th century Spain found a clever niche to hide a secret message to the future - in the derriere of a hollow statue of Christ crucified, called Cristo del Miserere.

A series of late-stage drug trials are showing great promise for a completely new generation of migraine prevention drugs, which could hit the market as early as next year.

Unhealthy food, and the way it helps to fuel obesity, has been called the number one cause of poor health in America, but amid everything we hear about healthy weight ranges, there's been an XL-sized blip in the data.

The only way to truly get over a breakup is to give it time.