They say one person's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure by pretty much anybody's standard.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet.

Once again, Mars has presented us with an example of something it seems to have in abundance: extremely peculiar and baffling ...

Floating about in microgravity might seem like a blissful reprieve for the human body's weight-bearing skeleton, but when ...

But new data from a recent clinical trial suggests that a previously discontinued experimental drug, called gantenerumab, ...

Cases of the fungal infection Candida auris are rising rapidly and coming from more sources too, a new US study reveals.

A quantum machine has used entangled qubits to generate a number certified as truly random for the first time, demonstrating ...

The developmental progress from daredevil teen to risk-averse senior is more complex than we thought, according to a new ...

One of the most consumed drugs in the US – and the most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – may do a lot more than simply ...

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a ...

There are many home-grown problems on Earth, but there's still time to worry about bad things arriving from above.

Earth's lakes are experiencing an alarming drop in oxygen levels, new research shows. Similar trends have also been observed ...