A German woman engineer on Saturday became the first wheelchair user to blast into space, taking a brief ride on a Blue ...

In the absence of great white sharks, copper sharks ( Carcharhinus brachyurus) are moving in to fill the vacant ecological niche. These sharks are preyed upon by great whites; with no great whites ...

Our pets can now live much longer lives, yet they face an increased risk of cognitive decline similar to human dementia as ...

The holiday season is a time of exciting activities, family get-togethers and a time away from the normal work and school ...

Experiments on an ultra-rare genetic mutation that causes neurodegeneration in children have helped uncover a new mechanism ...

There's the invasion by a warlike species, there's the highly evolved species trying to communicate with our primitive species, there's the benevolent aliens come to save us from ourselves, and ...

The Moon has no real atmosphere, but Earth has, in a sense, been generously trying to share its own for billions of years.

Using the combined might of spacecraft scattered across the Solar System, scientists have built the most detailed map yet of ...

People born in the 1960s or 70s may remember the children's toy clackers. They were two hard polymer spheres attached to ...

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have watched our planet's seasons from space and discovered that spring ...

This week in science: the choice between tea or coffee could have greater consequences than you think; interstellar comet ...

When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it's snowing so ...