For most people, cold weather is an inconvenience, requiring an extra layer of clothing or the thermostat to be turned up.

Astronomers have announced the discovery of what appears to be an "ice cold Earth," a chilly but potentially habitable rocky world similar to our own located less than 150 light-years away.

Humanity has worked itself into a position where we can detect a single high-energy particle from space and wonder where in ...

After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney transplants: being able to transfer ...

Human-made ivory and stone tools have been found in a 14,000-year-old layer of Alaskan earth, providing evidence of some of ...

The effects of depression may infiltrate your very bones – and conversely, your bones may send penetrating messages all the way back to your brain.

House burping' is the latest thing cluttering people's feeds: short clips of people flinging open every window and door, ...

A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April.

Scientists wondered whether Kanzi had the capacity to play pretend – that is, act like something is real while knowing it's ...

Baby long-necked dinosaurs might have been the fast food of the Jurassic Period. A detailed food web of the time, ...

While we have sent probes billions of kilometers into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own ...

In geology terms, a clast is just a word for a small rock fragment stuck inside a bigger rock. Finding clasts isn't ...