A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

The risk of cancer goes up with age, in part because aging impedes the body's ability to detect and destroy cells with ...

The new super-strong copper alloy can be used to build better airplanes and spacecraft.

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

In an unusual case, a man's multiday bout of hiccups was triggered by a respiratory infection. The symptoms: The patient went ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.