Go back a mere four billion years, and Mars could have been the perfect destination for a summer holiday.

More than 1,000 artists and musicians including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Sam Fender and Annie Lennox have recorded a silent album in protest at proposed changes to copyright law, which they say could lead to artists being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI).

An unknown disease has killed more than 50 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to doctors.

Personalised cancer treatment, matched to a patient via a simple blood test, is being hailed as "life-saving", following an initial study.

Hackers have stolen $1.5bn (£1.19bn) worth of digital money in what could be the biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft.

A newly discovered bat coronavirus could at some point spread to humans like COVID-19, Chinese researchers have found.

Elon Musk has had a heated exchange with famed astronaut Andreas Mogensen who has accused him of lying over claims that two NASA astronauts had been "left" in space.

Apple's decision to withdraw its most secure cloud storage service from the UK is just the latest turning point in a battle that has been rumbling on between US tech companies and successive British governments for some time.

Apple will no longer offer customers in the UK its most advanced, end-to-end security encryption feature for cloud data storage - following a row with the government.

Chinese universities are launching AI courses based on the country's groundbreaking startup DeepSeek.

A Spanish photographer has been named Underwater Photographer of the Year for his picture of a humpback whale and her newborn calf in French Polynesia. 

Voters in Germany are being exposed to copious far-right narratives online from AI-generated content and Russian disinformation campaigns.

Thousands of men are to be checked for prostate cancer in one of the first large-scale European trials of smart screening.

High-visibility clothing may make pedestrians and cyclists invisible to modern braking technology, a study has suggested.

As a journalist who does shift work - I'm obsessed with sleep.

After he was squirted in the eye with battery acid, Paul Laskey thought he would lose his eye entirely, until a donated placenta helped save some of his sight.

Hundreds of children with a rare and severe form of epilepsy are hoping a new drug being rolled out on the NHS may provide a better quality of life.

The tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh has been found for the first time since Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922.

The risk of the 2024 YR4 asteroid hitting Earth at the end of 2032 has increased again, according to NASA data.

South Korea has accused the Chinese AI company DeepSeek of sharing user data with TikTok's owner, according to the Yonhap news agency.