A major glacier in northeastern Greenland is rapidly crumbling into the Atlantic Ocean and experts warned on Thursday the breakup will likely raise global sea level by 18 inches (a half meter).

Scientists say Mars is currently losing about one-quarter pound of atoms in its atmosphere to space every second.

The significance of East Africa’s Turkana basin, which is called the cradle of humanity, in human history is still unclear. Now some ancient herbivore teeth are revealing the region’s special climate around the time our genus Homo first appeared.

A massive space rock that will shave by Earth on Halloween looks like a dead comet with a skull face, NASA said after gaining a closer look at the spooky space object.

Scientists have designed microscopic "grenades" that can explode their cancer-killing payload in tumours.

The first drug that targets precise genetic mutations in prostate cancer has been shown to be effective in a "milestone" trial by UK scientists.

Stunned scientists announce the unexpected discovery of large quantities of oxygen on a comet which streaked past the Sun in August with a European spacecraft in tow.

Alzheimer's disease can be detected decades before onset, using a virtual reality test, a study suggests.

The universe really is weird, which is bad news both for Albert Einstein and for would-be hackers hoping to break into quantum encryption systems. Eighty years after the physicist dismissed as "spooky" the idea that simply observing one particle could instantly change another far-away object, Dutch scientists said on Wednesday they had proved decisively that the effect was real.

Today's dogs can trace their origins to Central Asia, according to one of the most comprehensive genetic surveys yet.

Today is the future that people have been talking about. Hover boards and self-driven cars are beginning to go mainstream, so why should the concept of teleportation still be a part of the distant future?

The gravitational pull of earth is massaging the moon, opening up faults in the lunar crust, researchers say.

Scientists have suspected for months the presence of water on Pluto. But it was not until recently that they had solid proof, and the discovery is raising intriguing questions about the color and location of the water ice.

A team of scientists have discovered a new species of rat in Indonesia.

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics has been won by Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald, for discovering how neutrinos switch between different "flavours".

In quest for immortality, a Russian scientist has made a bizarre claim linking ancient bacteria to immortality.

To achieve a happy and healthy life, it's important to include heart-healthy foods in one's daily routine so as to keep diseases at bay.

Anurudh Ganesan took home the LEGO Education Builder Award for his refrigerated vaccine transporter.

Scientists say they are a step closer to growing fully functioning replacement kidneys, after promising results in animals.

Urinary tract infections can be treated more quickly using a new DNA sequencing device, according to research.