Michelle Starr

NASA has officially lost contact with a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars since 2014.

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for the secret behind Ancient Rome's ultra-durable concrete.

A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical mystery.

An expanse of ancient rock in the high-altitude Torotoro National Park in Bolivia has been revealed as the largest dinosaur tracksite ever recorded.

The last full Moon of 2025 is going to rise with all the panache conferred by a simultaneous perigee.

The bumpy trajectory of human aging may have a tipping point as we enter our twilight years, a new study has found.

A German man remains in remission from HIV an incredible six years after he received a stem cell transplant to treat an aggressive form of leukemia.

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only moved in but survived, adapted, and appeared to thrive.

The elusive 'vampire squid from hell' has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at more than 11 billion base pairs – more than twice as large as the biggest squid genomes.

The waste left over from spent fossil fuel may contain a treasure trove of rare-earth elements worth billions of dollars.