The source of the shower is periodic comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Discovered by astronomers Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle in July ...

Theoretically, there's no limit to how massive a black hole could grow. In practical terms, other constraints, such as the ...

A study published in 2022 found a tenuous but plausible link between picking your nose and an increased risk of developing ...

Humans may be living longer on average these days, but, even so, only a fraction of us will live to see our 100th birthday.

They act as microbial sponges, collecting bacteria and fungi from soil, water, pet hair and dander, and the general dust of ...

A piece of space rock that crashed into a home in Atlanta, Georgia, had been zooming around in space for longer than Earth has existed, a recent analysis has found.

The large-scale deposits of salt around the Dead Sea, known as salt giants, are built up as the lake's highly saline water evaporates, and a new study of their formation has revealed some of the ...

That's why handwashing becomes especially important during the summer months. It might not be glamorous, but clean hands are ...

In an experiment involving 32 breast cancer survivors, a 45-minute session of either resistance training or high-intensity interval training resulted in a surge of messenger proteins in the blood.

Although humanity is getting better at sending robotic probes out into the Solar System to explore the places no human can tread, we're still very much on a learning curve.

Four new species of tarantula have been discovered – and if they knew the name they were going to get, they might have ...

Researchers have suspected for some time that the link between our gut and brain plays a role in the onset of Parkinson's ...