Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body — and can clarify how diseases develop.

The speed of light is the fastest anything can travel. What happens to a photon from a galaxy 25 million light years away on ...

Scientists may have discovered the most powerful particle colliders in the universe — and they're strewn throughout our ...

The new image shows one galaxy piercing another with intense quasar radiation. Astronomers likened the violent galaxy ...

Researchers have located the wrecks of two long-lost military vehicles on the seafloor a few miles from San Diego: an ...

The discovery of water ice around a distant star is allowing scientists to study how the key ingredient for life is delivered ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

The universe has been expanding for 13.8 billion years, but this may not go on forever. According to some theories, we may be ...

A groundbreaking new supercomputer model shows how magnetic fields shape the turbulent flow of charged particles in space.

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

Two studies of ancient felines find that cats were likely domesticated in Egypt or other regions in North Africa — and moved into Europe with humans much later than previously believed.

Astronomers have calculated that the gas giant Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now, based on the odd orbits of two ...