Twice a year, the clocks move forward and back by an hour, but this simple act may come with a multitude of risks.
The shortlist was picked out of more than 6,000 candidates based on a range of factors pertaining to habitability.
Researchers have succeeded in partially reviving the frozen brain tissue of a mouse for the first time.
The object, which made headline news last year, appears to contain something that scientists were not expecting.
The complex and extensive test is designed to measure how close AI is to exceeding human-level intelligence.
It may still be possible to intercept the enigmatic interstellar visitor... but it might take a while.
Scientists have identified what they believe to be the landing site of the short-lived Soviet spacecraft.
A Norwegian researcher had set out to prove that directed-energy weapons could not have caused the condition.
An Australian scientist maintains that the Bermuda Triangle enigma may not be much of an enigma at all.
Imagine if instead of getting an injection, you could take a vaccine simply by downing an alcoholic drink.
Scientists have found evidence of a subterranean labyrinth of tunnels hidden beneath the planet's surface.
Scientists have used a new computer simulation to find out if nuking an asteroid could actually save us from catastrophe.
Scientists have put forward an alternative theory for what might lie at the center of the Milky Way.
The icy Jovian moon has long been a place of interest for scientists due to its subterranean ocean of liquid water.
One Harvard scientist maintains that Heaven not only exists, but that he might know exactly where it can be found.
Even if we did happen to come into contact with intelligent extraterrestrials, how would we communicate with them ?
Scientists have successfully acquired a DNA sample from one of the Renaissance-era maestro's sketches.
Scientists at the Schmidt Ocean Institute recently captured footage of this elusive giant of the deep.
Memory modification could become a reality in the not-too-distant future, according to neuroscientist Prof Steve Ramirez.
The new observations were made back in December using the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.