NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission, or TESS, launched in 2018, marks the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system, including those that could support ...

Before the scientists have produced the first image of a black hole on 10 April 2019, shining a light on one of the universe’s great mysteries numerous artists tried to draw this phenomena for ...

While a collision with an asteroid led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, a new hypothesis suggests that radiation from an ancient star explosion might have wiped out most prehistoric ocean ...

From the earliest of times, the zodiac has been universally used to predict or reflect characteristics of personality, whether from the Chinese, Mesopotamian, Indus Valley, Egyptian or any other ...

 All that is left of the ancient continent is now ice covered shelfs in the Arctic, but earlier it was a part of two supercontinents. A recent research has refuted a myth about Hyperborea being ...

How did life begin? The biggest question mankind has asked itself.  Where did we come from? The idea that gods from the heavens had provided the seed of life has been supported by many researchers. ...

One of the world's most prominent physicists, the late Stephen Hawking, was the first scientist to set out a theory of cosmology based on a combination of the general theory of relativity and ...

Why do we burn incense sticks? Some use it for its ability to kill odour while in many cultures, it’s what you would need in worship. For several centuries, within different religious traditions have ...

A farmer in central Yozgat province has found a fossilized jaw bone, which is thought to belong to an 8-million-year-old mammoth. Speaking to reporters, Hasan Şenyurt, director of Yozgat Museum, ...

A bizarre claim has been made in a scientific paper Journal of Parasitology in June 2012: a woman's mouth 'fell pregnant' with 12 baby squid after she bit into a parboiled portion of the cephalopod. ...

“It's when I die in this life, that I take refuge in a parallel world.”  ― Anthony T. Hincks In recent years one of the most exciting topics to speculate about is the idea that our reality — our ...

Footprints from the largest dinosaur to have ever existed on Earth have been discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye. The fossilized footprints were left by the 170-million-year-old early ...

The World Health Organization has listed a mysterious new pathogen, known only as 'Disease X', as one of the diseases that poses a threat to humanity in its latest list of blueprint priority ...

Does death really mean the end of our existence? When a doctor declares a person dead, some of their body may still be alive and kicking – at least for a day or two. New discovery shows one aspect of ...

Although the Y-chromosome is known to make men masculine, it seems to be too weak to stand the test of time. Darren Griffin, professor of genetics, and microbiologist Peter Ellis of Kent ...