On February 2, a spacewalk by Russian cosmonauts on the ISS was supposed to be a regular six-and-a-half hour mission to replace an electronics box for a communications antenna. But not everything went as planned - which required extra time, an

In an incredible world first, astrophysicists have detected multiple planets in another galaxy, ranging from masses as small as the Moon to ones as great as Jupiter.

The long-awaited results of a US$25 million National Institutes of Health study on the effects of cellphone radio-frequency radiation exposure on animals is out, and the results are mixed.

Elon Musk's company, Tesla, is working with the South Australian government to turn 50,000 homes into what they're calling a "virtual power plant".

Cretaceous amber has ponied up another spectacular find, and something rarely seen before: tiny arachnids, with mobile tails longer than their bodies.

From the way you move and sleep, to how you interact with people around you, depression changes just about everything. It is even noticeable in the way you speak and express yourself in writing.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the particle accelerator that just keeps on giving, and recent experiments at the site suggest we've got the first evidence for a mysterious subatomic quasiparticle that, until now, was only a hypothesis.

Elon Musk is getting ready to launch his own shiny red sports car to Mars orbit.

When NASA, pretty much every scientist, and all of the available evidence doesn't convince you that we are on a globular planet, apparently the only thing to try is to leave Earth to find out for yourself.

You've probably been on the edge of your seat wondering what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system has been up to. Now we have four new studies that have probed the planets and its star, and found that they definitely bear further investigation in our se

No other life form on our planet has infiltrated every environment as successfully as the minuscule single cells of bacteria. Amongst their many roles in life on Earth, it turns out some of these microbes are also experts at purifying precious meta

The northern hemisphere's permafrost regions have been concealing a really unpleasant surprise: mercury. A lot of mercury. Nearly twice as much mercury as the rest of the planet's natural mercury combined.

High blood pressure kills - and it kills quietly.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, currently the most powerful launch system on Earth, roared into the sky on Tuesday afternoon atop a pillar of smoke.

These days, many scientists face crazy pressures to publish in high-impact journals and get their work cited, all in order to keep their performance reviews in top shape.

Scientists think they've finally discovered a totally new type of water ice called superionic water, water that is simultaneously a solid and a liquid, potentially teaching us much more about this most versatile of substances and leading to the dev

A crayfish that is capable of cloning itself is taking over Europe – and scientists are taking note.

Send help, our brains are broken.

If there are viruses on the ground and viruses in the water, one might expect there are viruses in the sky as well.

A team of researchers has put a straight-forward critical thinking process to the test on 42 common climate science denier claims, showing we can help our friends and family sort fact from fake in just six easy steps.

Four years ago, a monster sunspot complex broke a solar record. As astronomers have just figured out, it was the source of the strongest magnetic field ever measured on the surface of the Sun.