Good news for the Moon, disappointing for everyone who wanted to see a really big impact from the safety of our planet.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially verified Chile as having eliminated leprosy, making it the first country in the Americas to do so and only the second worldwide. The rest of this ...

A team of scientists has investigated the so-called "Grand Canyon of the Atlantic": A huge underwater canyon extending 500 ...

M odern life provides enough for us to worry about without having to add space junk to that list. Unfortunately, it is ...

As if returning to the Moon’s vicinity hadn’t already had enough things to delay it, now risky space weather could get in the ...

Ancient statues used to be fragrant and colorful, with their noses and heads fully attached, and many presented with a small penis. The question is: why?

Around 1,500 bones belonging to at least 29 people were found where they shouldn't be. But it was moss that gave the criminals away.

This little critter hadn’t previously been identified south of Montana, but tiny, fossilized teeth show it had traveled into Colorado by around half a million years after the dinosaurs were wiped out.

Our story may not begin in Africa after all.

The discovery indicates that around 6 million years ago, South America was struck by a large space rock. This was probably ...

The investigation included 1.8 million people across five types of diets, including pescatarians and those who eat only poultry.

We should be very grateful for our planet’s magnetic field every day, but in particular when there is a massive solar storm. The effect on our planet is already enormous, produc ...