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Ice excavated from deep under the surface of Antarctica has just yielded humanity's oldest directly dated samples of glacial ice and air ever found.

With Halloween just around the corner, thousands will be shopping for fancy dress contact lenses to go with their costume.

Strange features of a collision point between pieces of Earth's crust are evidence that the structure may be nearing its end, new analysis suggests.

A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution - but perhaps not the one everyone was hoping for.

A pregnant woman's blood sample taken in 1972 was mysteriously missing a surface molecule found on all other known red blood cells at the time.

While Halloween offers a chance to embrace all things spooky and supernatural, the real terrors this season aren't confined to ghost stories.

A search for Parkinson's in the hiss of our brain's static has revealed measures of motor control that could one day fine-tune precise forms of stimulation therapy.

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed NGC 6537, the Red Spider Nebula in unprecedented detail, complete with sprawling legs, a glowing heart, and possibly a hidden companion lurking at its core.

It's not just your body that needs to be 'worked out'.

New observations of a strange object that wobbles around the space between Jupiter and Uranus reveal what looks like a system of rings forming and evolving, even as we watch.