A World Meteorological Organization report details a long list of grim records for everything from CO2 levels and temperature ...

A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting people who live in these areas, potentially ...

For years, Egyptologists have assumed pyramid tombs were just for the rich – but the burials at a site called Tombos don’t ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

Speedy new chargers from Chinese automaker BYD take just 5 minutes to restore 400 kilometres of an electric car’s range ...

There are a couple potential explanations for distinctive markings found on a Martian rock, but new evidence suggests they ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded unusual sounds as a Martian dust devil passed directly over the robotic vehicle in 2021, and we now know they came from electrical activity in the storm ...

Birds do it, chimps do it, even monarch butterflies do it – and by paying more attention to how animals self-medicate, we can ...

An analysis of changes to global ecosystems has revealed that almost nowhere is untouched by the influence of humanity, with ...

The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to half a metre in diameter, which could put ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

Scientists have long sought the particle that carries the force of gravity, but a new theoretical model tosses out that idea ...