Despite the wheel's immeasurable impact, no one is certain as to who invented it, or when and where it was first conceived.

A supermassive black hole in the early Universe has been spotted blasting out powerful jets of plasma that are at least twice ...

After many hours of staring unblinking at a small patch of sky, JWST has given us the most detailed map ever obtained of a ...

Appendix cancer is a condition that, until recently, was so rare that most people never gave it a second thought.

You may have come across those "what I eat in a day" videos on social media, where people – usually conventionally attractive ...

Long before Tyrannosaurus rex stalked the planet, a Dragon Prince reigned supreme. Paleontologists have discovered a new ...

In October 2012, one of the largest and most destructive storms to emerge from the Atlantic devastated the US and Caribbean.

A giant hole has opened in the atmosphere of the Sun, and it's blasting out a high-speed wind that is directed right at Earth ...

But how dirty are they, really? Human skin is home to billions of microorganisms – mainly bacteria, but also fungi and ...

It might look like a regular patch of Sun, but what you are looking at in the image above is a sight humanity has never seen before.

New images from the JWST are about as close as we've ever come to seeing the sky of an alien world outside the Solar System.

You may hear references to playing the world's smallest violin when someone is being overly whiny or wallowing in self-pity, ...