Humans with relatively more fat hidden in and around their muscles face a higher risk of death or hospitalization from heart ...

We know that spending lots of time sitting down isn't good for us, but just how much exercise is needed to counteract the ...

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th. SOHO's venerable LASCO C3 imager caught the comet near the Sun, as it topped ...

Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible light (top right) and low-energy X-rays (bottom left) are blocked by the gas ...

The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance ...

With microplastics now permeating our food and our bodies, researchers are keen to assess the potential damage these tiny fragments could be doing.

In recent weeks, reports have been circulating about severe reactions in people who've taken over-the-counter vitamin B6 supplements.

Synthesizing new proteins – the building blocks of biological life – is a scientific field of immense potential, and a newly ...

US time, a passenger jet and US Army helicopter collided at a low altitude near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, ...

Taking longer to drift into the dreaming phase – known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep – could be an early sign of ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe.