NASA scientists released audio Friday of rumbles captured by its InSight lander on the surface of Mars.

Without T-cells, the cells responsible for fighting off foreign cells, we humans are pretty vulnerable to disease. The T-cells themselves however rely on immune system sentinels, dendritic cells, to seek our and flag anything suspicious.

When Karl Martin of Derbyshire, England picked up a pair of pots for £4 (US$5) at a car boot sale, all he wanted was a nice jar to put his toothbrush in. And for five years, that's precisely what he had.

Flushing out your nasal cavity is a common method for clearing sinuses, but it could also be a vector for deadly, brain-eating amoeba. At least, that's what can happen if you don't carefully follow the instructions, as a new case report has made al

When it comes to prodding the very boundaries of the Solar System we all reside in, astronomers have had a notoriously tricky time of figuring out where those edges truly lie.

Wasps are dangerous little insects. They're aggressive as heck, and being stung can be on a spectrum from incredibly painful to fatal.

The island nation of Mauritius has little in the way of natural resources - historically, it's depended on imported petroleum to generate electricity.

It's the most populous city in Western Asia, and it's sinking into the ground at an alarming rate.

About 11 billion miles from Earth, a NASA probe has broken another record for humanity.

Every 5.4 years, the comet 46P/Wirtanen orbits the Sun, swinging through Earth's skies on its way. This year, its visit is in December, and we're going to be able to see it - in fact, it's visible in the sky now if you have binoculars or a telescop

A drought scorched the Great Plains, causing wildfires and US$2.5 billion in agriculture losses. Catastrophic floods submerged more than a third of Bangladesh. Record-shattering heat waves killed scores of people in Europe and China.

Being in space can have weird and sometimes harmful effects on the human body, and we'll have to work through those issues if we're to make it out to Mars and beyond, and stay healthy.

Around 252 million years ago, Earth experienced catastrophic devastation - an extinction event so severe that it wiped out almost all of the life on Earth.

A lone spacecraft is hovering 12 miles above the surface of a tiny asteroid millions of miles away, closely examining its surface. And it just sent back its first readings.

Earth is not the home you think it is. Far below the scant surface spaces we inhabit, the planet is teeming with an incredibly vast and deep 'dark biosphere' of subterranean lifeforms that scientists are only just beginning to comprehend.

Human activity has shifted the chemical composition of our waterways. Now, it's beginning to corrode our freshwater supply.

Last year, uptake of home DNA tests sailed into the stratosphere, giving millions of people around the world a whole new level of insight into the ways their genes work, and helping predict their genetic risk for disease.

On January 2, 2018, Kirstin Blaise Lobato, who was charged and convicted of murder, walked free from a Nevada prison due entirely to forensic entomology.

Until this precise moment in his nearly decade-long career, Stephen Curry has remained gleefully free of controversy.

Even the tiniest organisms can make it to the big leagues. The number one fastest animal movement in the world now belongs to an ant no bigger than the tip of your finger.