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

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens.

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 the boundary where the Sun's magnetic push no longer accelerates the solar wind.

We officially started watching Christmas films this weekend gone (alright, three weekends ago).

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have watched our planet's seasons from space and discovered that spring, summer, winter, and fall are surprisingly out of sync.

This week in science: the choice between tea or coffee could have greater consequences than you think; interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest pass to Earth; astronomers track a runaway supermassive black hole; and much more! Choice of Tea or . ...

When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it's snowing so hard that the reindeer can't see the way.

It's easy to see your body aging on the outside - wrinkles, dark spots, gray hair, the whole shebang - but as we grow older, our insides also inevitably change.

The islands of Bermuda are a scientific mystery.