While they might not look too similar, reptiles are the closest living relatives of birds, and both groups descended from the same group. But until now, the way in which scales could turn into feathers has remained a mystery. Now, researchers have identified numerous genes involved in the development of both adornments. By turning on …

An asteroid that visited us from interstellar space is one of the most elongated cosmic objects known to science, a study has shown. Discovered on 19 October, the object’s speed and trajectory strongly suggested it originated in a planetary system around another star. Astronomers have been scrambling to observe the unique space rock, known as …

Elon Musk has announced Tesla’s new Roadster was built with a special mode that lets the 250 mph (400 kph) electric car go even faster. Tesla unveiled its brand new $200,000 (£151,000) sports car – the fastest production car ever made – at an event in Los Angeles last week, claiming it will go from 0 to 6 mph …

Our bodies are perfect machines, performing thousands of processes every minute while we are reading, for example, this article. And we don’t even know about the majority of them. Here are a few unbelievable facts about our bodies that will definitely surprise you. Newborns don’t have kneecaps. They exist at first as soft cartilage tissue that becomes …

Most of us spend a good portion of our lives thinking you can only get a good look at the moon through a high-powered telescope, but technology continues to prove us wrong, as NASA places stunning images from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter for the public to view and process. Orbiting Earth’s moon since 2009, there’s …