Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a so-called Einstein zigzag lens that could ...

A genetic flaw dooms half of all crested newts to die before they hatch – now we know how this baffling evolutionary quirk ...

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...

A classic study found that people can fail to notice a gorilla when they are focusing on something else, but new experiments ...

Popular semaglutide-based drugs used for weight loss may reduce chronic and acute pain, which could make them a promising ...

Photographer Kadir van Lohuizen captures the food industry's attempts to meet the challenges of climate change and conflicts ...

Readers give higher ratings to AI-generated poetry than the works of poets such as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman and ...

The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one ...

Satellite images reveal that when conditions are right, the pollution from industrial hotspots can cause snow to fall ...

Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding sideways around corners while maintaining control ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket. It aims to conduct the launch as early as 18 November. Here’s everything we know so far ...

The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue whale – and it is thought to be three centuries ...