It's easy to think of black holes as voracious destruction machines, slurping up everything in their immediate vicinity. But that's not always the case. The environments around active supermassive black holes are complex, and last year, a team of a

Why can’t we watch Perseverance's “seven minutes of terror” landing on Mars live on TV? We probably could ...

SpaceX on Tuesday successfully completed a flight of less than a minute of the largest prototype ever tested of the future rocket Starship, which the company hopes to use one day to colonize Mars.

The Lebanese capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday evening local time by an explosion that has killed at least 78 people and injured thousands more.

Whether it's a summer barbecue with friends, your favourite fast food takeaway, or Christmas dinner, we can probably all recall times when we've eaten more food in one sitting than we needed to.

A cold you got years ago may prove helpful if your body has to fight the new coronavirus.

Up to half the calcium in the Universe – and that includes our bones and teeth – is thought to come from exploding supernova stars, and researchers have now been able to get unprecedented insight at how these ultra-rare, calcium-rich supernovae

Make a crocodile out of taffy. Take its head and tug on it until its neck extends a good few metres from its body. If you squint, this could be what one odd-looking Triassic reptile called Tanystropheus looked like. More or less.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 30 July, carrying a host of cutting-edge technology including high-definition video equipment and the first interplanetary helicopter.

People have searched for sex differences in human brains since at least the 19th century, when scientist Samuel George Morton poured seeds and lead shot into human skulls to measure their volumes.

The dwarf planet Ceres was once assumed to be a fairly primitive chunk of rock. But just a few years ago, NASA's space probe Dawn revealed that there's more to this asteroid belt body than meets the eye.

More than 20 million coronavirus cases have now been registered across the world, over half in the Americas, according to an AFP tally of official sources at 2215 GMT on Monday.

One of the world's most prominent astronomical observatories has a hole.

A very long time ago, in the very early Universe, scientists have discovered a galaxy that seems way too advanced to have grown in the short timespan since the Big Bang. It's called SPT0418-47, and it's lurking 12.4 billion light-years away - when

The sudden dimming of one of the brightest stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse, could be due to a dust cloud spewing up from its surface, astronomers said on Thursday.