Two decades after the hypothetical prediction that it should be possible, scientists have been able to produce fractal light from a laser.

Since it was first detected hurling through our Solar System, the interstellar object known as 'Oumuamua has been a source of immense scientific interest.

By the end of the century, if not sooner, the world's oceans will be bluer and greener thanks to a warming climate, scientists reported Monday.

Scientists have just found a new distinction between the brains of the two sexes: age-related changes to the brain occur more slowly in women than in men.

When an earthquake struck near the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on September 28 last year, thousands of people lost their lives. Dragged out to sea, buried in mud, they were the victims of 2018's most devastating earthquake.

For Elon Musk and SpaceX, the company he founded to reignite space exploration, a great deal hinges on the creation of the Starship.

The humble honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths including addition and subtraction, shows new research published today in the journal Science Advances.

Astronomers have been treated to a truly special look at some of the organic building blocks of the Universe, thanks to a newborn star that's been spotted around 1,300 light-years away from Earth.

We've been gazing out at the Solar System for a very long time, and by now we know, more or less, where things go. Sun, planets, asteroid belt, more planets, then millions more asteroids (we're not really sure how many). Maybe another planet. OK, s

Life is miraculous, and watching it unfold in real time is even more so.

Russian news agency RIA Novosti revealed images last week of a hypersonic uncrewed spacecraft reportedly in development by the country's space agency.

A ceramic that becomes more electrically conductive under elastic strain and less conductive under plastic strain could lead to a new generation of sensors embedded into structures like buildings, bridges ...

We're not sure why it happened. Even 'when' is a topic of ongoing debate. But at some point, for some reason, our brains got big.

Fences have risen around kindergartens. Special vehicles transport military personnel to their work sites. Residents of the island settlement are afraid to leave their homes.

By now, you've probably heard that the Arctic is not doing so well. It's warming faster than the rest of the world, blue lakes are bubbling with methane gas, and Arctic soils could be releasing carbon that's been trapped there since ancient times.

Rolling up to the crater's edge, the Opportunity rover took in a landscape unlike anything any Earthling had ever seen. A vast, meteorite-blasted expanse of volcanic rock and iron oxide extended for 15 miles, ringed by rugged mountains under a dusk