A study of festivalgoers suggests that drinking beer and sharing a bed makes you more attractive to mosquitoes ...

Jupiter is a gas giant and doesn’t have a solid outer surface like Earth. But astronomers can still assess its shape by ...

Astronomers have struggled to explain why a long and thin cloud forms above Mars’s Arsia Mons volcano each year, until now ...

An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, ...

Childhood obesity rates have surpassed those of undernutrition for the first time, suggesting efforts to combat malnutrition ...

A 1.3 kilometre swim by a jaguar is the longest confirmed one ever, but the cat's motives for making the journey are unclear ...

Our first attempt at shifting the orbit of an asteroid has provided crucial insight into how we could safely deflect a space ...

Ancient remains from a cave in Serbia show that Neanderthals were hunting mountain goats 300,000 years ago, adding to ...

An estimate that as many as 1.3 million wildebeest move across the Serengeti Mara landscape each year has been cut down to ...

A rock found last year on the surface of Mars offered tantalising evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet. Now ...

Scientists have mapped the activity that takes place across a mouse's entire brain as it decides how to complete a task - and ...