Studies are bolstering the idea that air pollution could increase your chances of developing dementia. But there are ways to ...

Some researchers are seeking out the ancient history of these patterns in a substance that may be unexpected to some: plant wax. The study, coauthored by Daniel Ibarra, an assistant professor of Earth ...

He was at the heart of 1960s counterculture, then paved the way for the libertarian mindset of Silicon Valley. At 87, Brand is still keen to ensure the world is maintained properly – not just today, ...

LIGHTHAVEN, ONE kilometre down Telegraph Avenue from the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is a rambling conference facility which dedicates itself to “hosting events and programmes ...

We all know that stars radiate light and much more. But radiation belts can also surround many other celestial bodies, such ...

Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed planetary systems at ...

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

Astronomers studying a faint red dwarf star called LHS 1903 have found a four-planet system arranged in a sequence that no standard model of planet formation predicted. The system follows a ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

For decades, many scientists believed that most of the water in our planet came from space, transported by meteorites and comets during the first moments of ...