How do you get a paper retracted? Hint: it doesn’t usually start with a strongly worded opinion piece from a senior political ...

To see the event at its best, it’s better to wait for later in the night, when both the Moon and the Pleiades are visible ...

Micherre Fox, a 31-year-old from Manhattan, New York, recently unearthed the 2.3-carat diamond – about the size of a pea – at ...

Parasite cleanses are typically based on the idea that someone has an intestinal parasite infection – so worms or protozoa ...

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To complicate the matter, no human remains were found in the sediment layer that contained the arrowheads, although the ...

Archaeologists made the discovery through genetic analysis of remains from two early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries, both dating to ...

Claims that environmental protections are obstacles to the space industry do not match evidence of what happens around ...

In the more likely scenario, a star over 30 times the mass of our Sun was orbiting a stellar-size black hole. In the year ...

Kookaburras are known for their laugh, but they're one of several bird species that seem to be having a joke on simple-minded ...

None comparable have hit Earth since, but we came really close in 2012, as a new NASA visualization shows. Geomagnetic storms ...

This is known as gravitational lensing. The Cosmic Grapes were made 100 times brighter and larger than they would otherwise ...