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Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time.

Data collected from the Perseverance rover last year has just delivered what might be the best evidence yet for microbial life on Mars.

Research on the microbes living in our digestive tract has triggered a 'revolution' in nutritional science.

Abandoned shopping carts - pushed into hedges, dumped in rivers, or stranded on city streets - have become symbols of pollution and waste, and a new study shows just how bad for our planet they actually are.

The famous asteroid, Ryugu, is drip-feeding scientists crucial information about its watery past.

Imagine a game show where the host asks the contestant to randomly pick one option out of three: A, B or C.

Bacteria normally found in the mouth could play a direct role in triggering a heart attack, a new study has found.

Attempts at communicating what generative artificial intelligence (AI) is and what it does have produced a range of metaphors and analogies.

It's a quiet morning.

While domestic animals gradually became larger over the last 1,000 years, wild animal body sizes shrank.