Katalyst’s LINK spacecraft might still be able to save NASA’s ailing Swift telescope from doom, despite a significant mishap ...

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Watch as a total solar eclipse sweeps across parts of Europe and the Atlantic ocean as the moon passes between Earth and the sun, blocking out sunlight. Parts of the US and Africa, along with the ...

A new approach to breast augmentation injects fat from elsewhere in the body into dissolvable scaffolds shaped like bra cups, which may lead to a more natural look and fewer complications ...

Two research teams have independently created devices within which sound waves could be separated by frequency, creating the ...

In an election, how can you make sure that everyone's votes are counted but also kept entirely secret? Quantum mechanics may ...

Having surgery for a heart condition is thought to have triggered an immune response that put the patient into remission for ...

Our sun is capable of storms far bigger than we’ve ever recorded. Studying the world’s oldest trees suggests we could be due one of these gargantuan events soon ...

The solar system’s first triple asteroid system has been found, boosting predictions that such systems result from collisions between asteroids. About 20 “binary” asteroids – composed of two asteroids ...

Starvation, economic collapse, civil unrest and wars are among the risks we face if we don’t take decisive action to limit further global warming and preserve nature, leading experts in climate, food, ...

Three massive black holes have been discovered in a galaxy located in the early universe, 12.5 billion light years away. This has left astronomers surprised that such a complex system could have ...

Bacteria-killing phage viruses souped up with DNA-destroying CRISPR appear to have helped clear up a very serious infection caused by antibiotic-resistant E. coli ...