In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

Once common contributing factors such as body mass index and smoking status were factored in, the final calculations showed ...

A suspected strike by "tiny space debris" has delayed the return of the Chinese spaceship Shenzhou-20 and three astronauts, ...

A monumental complex built by the Maya around 3,000 years ago was modeled on a map of the cosmos, new fieldwork has revealed.

Genes on the sex chromosomes would be expected to show different activity between men (with an X chromosome and a Y ...

A simple eye scan could be used to check for signs of heart disease risk and biological aging, a new study shows – ...

Neanderthals inhabited western Eurasia from about 400,000 years ago until their extinction about 40,000 years ago and have ...

In a flare of light that traveled for 10 billion years to reach us, astronomers have identified the most powerful and most ...

The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a massive event sometime in our galaxy ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

The natural world has brewed up a spooky 'skull' in a deep volcanic pit in the Sahara Desert. From space, the sight really ...

For decades, scientists have tried to understand how the Sun's corona (outer atmosphere) gets so blisteringly hot while its ...