The Deep Space Network is our best way to communicate with spacecraft beyond Earth’s orbit, and one of its three stations around the world is in the middle of a wildfire

Researchers have created a textile made from the parasitic fungus Cordyceps militaris, which is biodegradable and can be adapted for different purposes with various microbes

In a small study, restricting calories led to greater weight loss among people with a biological age younger than their chronological age

Humans have been observing solar eclipses for millennia – carving, painting, sketching and finally photographing as the moon blocks out the disc of the sun

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons are generalists

When researchers found evidence of a black hole flying out of its galaxy, nobody knew how that could happen. Now we have an explanation