It’s no secret the deep sea is home to some strange-looking animals, so might we introduce you to yet another weirdo: the ...

While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

"Dry skin regions (forearms and calves) were more even, richer, and functionally distinct than sebaceous (behind ears) and ...

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

Neutrinos – you may have heard of them referred to as "ghost particles" – pass through everything because they are extremely ...

What if, his team pondered, there was some way to get a look inside the egg sac to see how a baby shark develops? Enter: the ...

If you are into planets and also like to get up pre-dawn (much easier in the Northern hemisphere now that it is winter here), ...

We have all the latest images of our interstellar visitor from ESA's Juice, Hubble, NASA's STEREO, and even a photobomb from ...

In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...

Seal finger is thought to be the clinical manifestation of infection with a bacterium called Mycoplasma phocacerebrale. It ...

N eanderthals in France may have been strutting around in leather clothes with matching handbags more than 100,000 years ago.

“Though a few giraffes in captivity have been known to live into their late-twenties, reaching age 21 is considered an ...