The double star system is called HD 135344 AB and it's about 440 light-years away from Earth. A and B are both young stars, ...

During a recent lightning storm, a couple from Canada caught a rare weather mystery on camera. Right from their porch, Ed and Melinda Pardy watched as a lightning bolt struck the land less than a ...

Want to remember things better as you get older? The secret might be surprisingly simple: focus on feeling good.

To celebrate its third year of operations, the powerful space telescope has peered into the heart of an empyrean essence of ...

Canned salmon are the unlikely heroes of an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum – preserving decades of Alaskan marine ecology in brine and tin.

The effects of climate change could awaken hundreds of volcanoes worldwide – which in turn could worsen the effects of ...

Many GP surgeries and foot clinics don't have this kit. And in many people, especially those with diabetes or stiff arteries, the test doesn't always give a clear or reliable, result. Our research ...

The blue shark ( Prionace glauca) might be more than its name. Scientists investigating the sleek ocean predator's skin ...

Motes of plastic less than a micrometer across could outnumber larger fragments and particles floating through the oceans to ...

A genetically modified herpes simplex virus, called RP1, has now been shown to destroy advanced melanoma tumors, even when ...

We're constantly told to "eat healthy" – but what does that actually mean? Even doctors sometimes struggle to offer clear, ...

There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one ...