In the opening scene of Love, Actually, Hugh Grant's character says how, whenever he gets gloomy with the state of the world, he thinks about the arrivals gate at Heathrow airport.

Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and potentially shedding light on the evolution of language.

Once the two galaxies are merged, the supermassive hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud – if black hole there is – will make its way to the galactic center, where it will eventually, after many more ...

Using a process known as quantum annealing, the researchers have provided a proof-of-concept method to study the dynamics of ...

Beryllium-10 is a radioactive isotope that is continuously produced by cosmic rays interacting with Earth's atmosphere. When ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At most, Earth's magnetic field may have remained at 25 percent of its current ...

Climate change drove weeks of crop-withering temperatures last year in the West African countries that underpin the world's ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

Two American astronauts who have been trapped on the International Space Station since June could return to Earth earlier in ...

High-energy particles rain down on Earth constantly, but scientists have now detected a doozy: a neutrino blasting in from ...

"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...