But sometimes, his inventions took on a more playful bent. Not for nothing was the classical Arabic term for mechanics and ...

Turns out space stinks, but how do we know what cosmic objects smell like and can we recreate it here on Earth?

A rtemis II is going back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), and the astronauts are out of quarantine, quashing our hopes of seeing the launch next week or the one after. Friday morning, we ...

The other discovery is the cooling of the atmosphere. Combining the observations from JWST with measurements from Voyager 2, ...

Located in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Taklamakan Desert is one of the driest places on Earth ...

Complex cells are thought to be the result of a union between two ancient microorganisms, but scientists have long been ...

W hen Justin Schmidt was just seven years old, he had a run in with a bee that would send him down a curious path. The offending insect was a honeybee that – annoyed it had been plucked it from a ...

I n 2013, deep within a Canadian mine, geologists discovered a fracture that contained the oldest known water on Earth. Hidden nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) below the surface, the ancient water had ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...

Even palaeontologists used to digs in forbidding places might have baulked at this one, but the results more than vindicated ...

It’s not that rare for the Moon to pass in front of Mercury, but it seldom happens when it is this easy to watch.

Reminding someone who has come to rely on a chatbot that they are not human may push them into what's known as the ...