For the past two years, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has sailed across the solar system by the light of the stars. Like ancient mariners and the Apollo astronauts, it needed the constancy of the constellations to navigate the dark unknown.

The first Russian rocket to fly with people since a harrowing failure two months ago blasted off Monday morning in a successful return to flight.

Four new detections of gravitational waves have been announced at the Gravitational Waves Physics and Astronomy Workshop, at the University of Maryland in the United States.

The fate of civilisation itself lies squarely in the hands of today's leaders, Sir David Attenborough has warned in a strident address on behalf of the world's peoples.

Whether you're a professional vlogger or a smartphone photographer, it always pays to have the latest and greatest smartphone with a strong sensor and image processing software.

Our environment is changing, and changing fast, putting pressure on our hardworking scientists to come up with ever more ingenious ways of meeting the needs of humankind – like pulling drinkable water right out of the air, in this case.

The world has not done enough to improve vaccination coverage, and now, measles is experiencing a resurgence in nearly every corner of the globe.

He may (or may not) have brought about the world's first genetically modified human babies using CRISPR-Cas9, but He Jiankui's shoes are probably not the most comfortable in the world right now.

Last month, new research from Harvard and Yale led to a flurry of news claiming scientists were proposing to 'dim the Sun' in an "ingenious but as-yet-unproven way to tackle climate change".

We humans are very curious about the nuclear furnace that powers life on Earth. We've looked at the Sun in so many different ways, both Earth-based and space-based. Yet we've had a really hard time getting a glimpse of its poles.

Aliens with super intelligence may have already visited us here on Earth. We were just too set in our ways to notice.

Researchers have developed a test that could be used to diagnose all cancers. It is based on a unique DNA signature that appears to be common across cancer types.

In the mud of London's Thames river, a strange skeleton that lay hidden for 500 years has finally seen the light of day. Face-down, one arm upflung, the only remnants of his clothing a pair of half-rotted, thigh-high black leather boots.

A week before Christmas, a little Brazilian girl will be celebrating her first birthday. She doesn't know it yet, but her birth set a milestone in medical history, providing new opportunities for women who otherwise couldn't carry and deliver a chi

Freezing temperatures and industrial activity may sound like a recipe for disaster, but sometimes, beautiful things come from strange places.

You only wish you could be this fabulous millions of years after you die. Precious stones recovered from the opal fields of Australia have turned out not just to be opalised fossils - but the opalised fossils of a dinosaur previously unknown to pal

It's an unusual reason to delay a cargo launch planned to dock with the International Space Station: moldy food bars.

The weather was closing in. For a week, cryosphere scientist Luke Trusel and his team hadn't been able to access their remote drill site in western Greenland, and if they didn't act now, there was no telling when they'd get another chance.

A new study has just revealed that genetically modified pig hearts have now kept baboons alive for up to 195 days. This stuff, reminiscent of sci-fi nightmares, is actually a huge step towards increasing the pool of donor heart organs availabl

We're now increasingly aware of the microplastic fragments polluting our oceans, but a new study shows just how quickly these tiny particles can find their way into marine life – it takes a mere six hours for billions of pieces of material to spr