A fungus that evolved at Chernobyl and is now grown on the ISS, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, slightly reduced radiation ...

A new technique allows complex interactions in materials to be simulated using Monte Carlo simulations thousands of times ...

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

Some fungi live up to 2,500 years thanks to an internal system that eliminates harmful cells and prevents genetic mutations.

ESA images show a large meteoroid strike on Apollinaris Mons, leaving more than 100 mysterious moving dust marks on Mars.

China begins drilling a six-mile-deep scientific well named Shendi Take 1 to explore the depths of the Earth and its secrets.

A Roman cemetery containing 100 warhorses and a man buried among them has been discovered in Germany, posing a social and ...

In a protected corner of the Peruvian Amazon, scientists have finally named a giant tree that hid in plain sight for 40 years ...

About 68-million-years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, a giant fossil egg was laid in Antarctica. The excavated remains ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

A group of friends using metal detectors in Somerset stumbled on a buried hoard containing 2,584 medieval coins. Called the Chew Valley Hoard, the coins date from the years around the Norman Conquest ...

Beneath the ice of Antarctica, scientists discover a “fish city” with protected nests more than 950 feet deep.