On Earth human sperm tend to know where to go when it comes to fertilizing an egg in utero. But that may not be the case in ...

A new study by NASA scientists explores the risks and challenges of human reproduction in space, especially for long missions ...

Sperm may lose their ability to navigate in microgravity, raising new questions about whether human reproduction is possible ...

Elon Musk's hopes of one day colonising other worlds might be nothing more than a pipe dream ...

Recently, scientists have reviewed the existing literature to understand how space travel, space radiation, and microgravity affect human reproductive functions. This review was published in Npj ...

You'd think we'd know everything there is to know about sexual reproduction. But as it turns out, there are still quite a few ...

A study based on a review of genetic and health information from more than 276,000 people finds strong support for a decades-old evolutionary theory that sought to explain aging and senescence. A ...

Wild animals that have acquired adaptions to maximize their reproductive output in some of the world's most extreme conditions may provide answers to some of the most pressing problems in the field of ...