Blue Monday is apparently the most depressing day of the year. Here's the truth about the equation behind it.

There is growing evidence that simple, everyday changes to our lives can alter our brains.

Simple tricks to fight your winter blues and restore your energy as darker days set in.

The number of people who dislike their body is depressingly high. What can we do about it?

A new study might explain why dying patients' lives flash before their eyes.

The Planck space telescope has picked up echoes left by soundwaves that travelled through the early Universe.

What does science say about the best way to develop and build your strength?

Why it's a myth that the more exercise we do, the more calories we burn.

How effective is fertility preservation?

A new study reveals how an alarming decline in sperm count and quality is threatening the human race.

We explore the benefits of a 'dopamine fast' and why it's become a popular trend, especially in our modern world.

The surprising health and wellbeing benefits of swimming in freezing cold water.

Our behaviour and environment can alter our genetic code.

Blockages in the UK's public footpaths

Presteigne and Norton, in Powys, have been officially recognised as a Dark Skies community.

Cameraman Vianet Djenguet got a little too close for comfort when filming the alpha male of a gorilla family.

Scientists use a radar spacecraft to take a "tape measure" to the world's biggest block of ice.

The next-generation vehicle conducts a hot-fire test on its launch pad in French Guiana.

A musical take on the 'perfect solar system'

Footage captured by a documentary team shows a blue whale off the Seychelles.

Expedition captures first ever footage of spiky egg-laying mammal that walked with dinosaurs.

A team of more than 140 surgeons in New York successfully performed the procedure on Aaron James.

When a star forms, pulling gas down on to itself, it shoots out huge polar jets.

Scientists have been studying the behaviour and have called it a "global phenomenon"

The 97-year-old presents Planet Earth III, the third instalment of the landmark award-winning programme.

Stargazers witness a spectacular celestial event in parts of the US, Central and South America.

What is asteroid Psyche’s story? It's dominated by metal today. Were its rock layers stripped off?

A picture of a mysterious and other-worldly horseshoe crab is this year's top wildlife image.

Video records the moment a novel British satellite was ejected from its launch rocket.

A novel UK satellite returns its first pictures of heat variations across the surface of the Earth.

Osiris-Rex principal investigator Dante Lauretta recalls his emotions as asteroid samples return.

It is hoped the material from Bennu could tell Nasa how life on Earth began.

Nasa scientists celebrate as the sample successfully lands in the Utah desert.