Eating one's own kind might be considered poor taste to us humans, but it's a remarkably common survival tactic among other animals. Which is why we shouldn't be surprised that dinosaurs also turned to cannibalism on occasion.

One of the biggest cosmic mysteries has just been used to investigate another huge mystery. Astronomers used powerful bursts of radio waves traced back to distant galaxies to probe the space between the stars - and revealed where the Universe's mis

Today is the day. At 4:33 pm ET, SpaceX is on track to become the first private space company to deliver NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).

SpaceX was set to launch astronauts for the first time on Wednesday, thereby restoring NASA's human spaceflight program. But then storm clouds rolled in.

Dormant "zombie fires" scattered across the Arctic region – remnants of record blazes last year – may be coming to life after an unusually warm and dry spring, scientists warned Wednesday.

On the evening of Wednesday 27 May, residents of northern Turkey were treated to a spectacular light show. Videos on social media show what appears to be a meteor streaking across the sky, before exploding in the air with a thunderous boom.

In the expansion of its iron ore mine in Western Pilbara, Rio Tinto blasted the Juukan Gorge 1 and 2 – Aboriginal rock shelters dating back 46,000 years. These sites had deep historical and cultural significance.

Surgical masks may help keep hamsters' cages coronavirus-free, but it's still unclear how much extra protection they provide to healthy people, when out and about in the real world.

We live in stressful times, there is no denying it. But while the subjective sensation of stress is ubiquitous and seemingly an inescapable element of the human condition, there's still much we don't understand about how our darker feelings come ab

Countless biological processes are involved in growing a mini human, and sometimes parts of this complex life's miracle can go awry. So we scan and test babies as they develop to prepare for anything out of the ordinary... although the growth of a

Throughout history, Earth has experienced at least five major mass extinctions that wiped out most life around the globe. Most of these events pretty clearly coincided with catastrophes such as asteroid impacts, geological activity, and volcanic er

An international team of scientists sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches back in 2016. The reason?

Using state-of-the-art astronomical instruments, an international team of researchers has confirmed the existence of Proxima b, an Earth-like planet that's orbiting the closest star to our Solar System, Proxima Centauri.

Experts still don't know where the new coronavirus came from.

Human pregnancy is downright curious. Today, we still don't know why women go into labour for so long or why they face so much risk when they give birth.

Three boys from Bolivia let a black widow spider bite them in the hopes of gaining Spider-Man's powers, but they ended up in hospital instead.

Last year, an expedition hunting for the remains of a famous explorer's ship off Antarctica's coast instead uncovered traces of a very different kind of history, one stretching back thousands of years to the end of the last great ice age.

The day the US mourned reaching a tragic milestone - 100,000 novel coronavirus deaths - people on the other side of the world in New Zealand celebrated a much more hopeful one: No new coronavirus cases over the prior five days.

One thing we're not short on is research linking microbes living in our guts with the health of our brain and nervous system. Unfortunately, most studies are either circumstantial, or largely rely on animal models.

Humans are social animals and that's usually a good thing. But while there might be safety in numbers under some circumstances, new psychological research suggests human connection isn't always a good thing.