We know that too much sitting is bad for us, but a new study adds an important detail: if you spend more than 10-and-a-half ...

Quasars are awe-inspiring – among the brightest objects in the Universe, behind gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. Unlike other ...

Intestines suffer a lot of wear and tear in their daily service to digestion, requiring constant renewal of their lining.

BepiColombo, a joint mission by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, will make its sixth flyby of Mercury in January 2025. This maneuver will help the spacecraft enter orbit around ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest ...

A quantum state of light has been successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic ...

The Starliner spacecraft approaches the International Space Station carrying astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

In new research, physicists have theorized a bold way to change it up by entangling two particles of very different kinds – a ...

We're way behind several species when it comes to regeneration, and scientists are keen to discover the secrets of these ...

The large size (for an embryo) and hollowed-out middle of each fossil is indicative that each of these embryos once fed upon ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...

Regular ScienceAlert readers will likely know how pervasive microplastics are – getting into human tissue, ancient rock, and ...