A trio of satellites studying our planet's magnetic field have shown details of the steady swell of a magnetic field produced by the ocean's tides. Four years of data collected by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Swarm mission have contributed to the mapping…

A crazy optical illusion is breaking the internet this week – and no, it's not just another version of that dress.

When fossil collector Paul De la Salle discovered pieces of a giant bone on Lilstock beach in Somerset in May 2016, he didn't realise he had stumbled on a clue to a near 170-year-old mystery.

The first of my three-part episode on robots. I look at what makes a robot a robot. I answer the question: will robots take your job? and I have some fun doi...

The third and final part of my series on robots. Are robots going to cause the apocalypse? How will the government handle killer robots? Should we build smar...

Elon Musk says SpaceX is going to try to land a rocket stage with … wait for it … a "giant party balloon."

The breakthrough, spurred by the discovery of plastic-eating bugs at a Japanese dump, could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis

A new proposal describes how to use SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to intercept the next interstellar visitor to Earth's solar system.

Scientists have discovered that tiny diamonds found inside a meteorite show signs of originating in a lost planet - one that dates back to the earliest days of the Solar System.

Eeeeeek.

On Thursday, the US Senate narrowly confirmed President Trump's controversial nominee for NASA administrator, Representative Jim Bridenstine.

How's the air in your neighbourhood today? A new State of Global Air report suggests more than 95 percent of the planet's population currently have to breathe polluted air – air containing fine particle levels that exceed the global air quality g

Maybe we should look behind the couch cushions.

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"Super-Earth" planets are giant-size versions of Earth, and some research has suggested that they're more likely to be habitable than Earth-size worlds. But a new study reveals how difficult it would be for any aliens on these exoplanets to explore space.…

Ornithologists have classified the Vogelkop superb bird-of-paradise as its own species after recognizing differences in two similar-looking kinds of the birds.

Nobody can attend everything. Still, sometimes there's an event you really wanted to go to, but responsibilities got in the way.

European Union voted to ban three neonicotinoids, after scientific evidence showed their risk to bees.

It might be hard to find the "You Are Here" circle on this one.