The US space programme has a new focus on an old destination. President Trump has directed NASA to focus its efforts on crewed missions to the moon before Mars

For the first time, data from millions of doctor's visits has revealed that there really doesn't appear to be a link between rainy weather and achy joints - a claim that has persisted for centuries.

In a move sure to be celebrated by opponents of fossil fuel-based energy, the World Bank has just made a huge announcement at the One Planet summit called by French President Emmanuel Macron.

There’s a new use for sperm – delivering cancer drugs to tumours of the female reproductive tract. This targeted approach may avoid the side effects of chemo

Today is a monumental day in SpaceX's history. For the first time ever, the spaceflight company flew a mission using mostly refurbished technology.

If you're like most of our readers, you're probably reading this right now on your mobile, which means there's also a chance you're reading it on a broken, fragmented phone screen.

When 'Oumuamua first came to the notice of astronomers, zooming into the Solar System from very, very far away, it was assumed that the object was a comet.

In 2025 NASA will either launch a probe to bring back samples from comet 67P, previously visited by Rosetta, or send a drone-like craft to Saturn's moon Titan

Some wonder-materials you hear from once, and that's it. But not graphene. A month barely goes by these days without us hearing about a new use for this amazing carbon allotrope.

It's been an excellent year for science - we had an absolutely stellar neutron star merger announcement, found the elusive time crystals, finally achieved counterfactual quantum communication, and much, much more.

A "snowbaby" is a term used to describe an embryo that is frozen in storage and preserved for potential future birth. In November 2017, the longest frozen embryo ever held in storage was successfully born in Tennessee.

Back in April 12 proposals were submitted for the New Frontiers programme. Some of the proposals included missions to Venus and Enceladus, a probe for Saturn’s atmosphere and a sample collect…

Cloud formation depends on a number of factors, including atmospheric temperature and the amount of water vapour in the air, but we might be able to add another influence to the mix: cosmic rays beaming down through space.

Scientists have established a method of growing hydrogel in a manner similar to the organic growth of plant or animal tissue. Robots are among the uses.

"That's a record."

In the academic world, citations matter. But thanks to the internet, the public is increasingly engaging with science too, and that doesn't just mean reading science news, but actually looking at published research as well.

While we all take for granted the fact that time's arrow forever points towards the future, physicists have always had trouble showing why this is necessarily the case.