A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.

During the study, participants tracked and reported how much time they spent exercising each week. They categorized the workouts, recording time spent walking, jogging, biking, rowing, playing racket ...

Harvard scientists find that exercise variety is good but not too much and only certain types. Take the findings with a grain ...

Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, environment and other variables. It also ...

New twin‑study research finds that, after removing deaths from accidents and infections, genes account for about 50% of human ...

How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

Engaging in this habit could lower your risk of death by 19 percent.

A massive Harvard-led study of 110,000 people is making waves in the fitness world, but the data suggests that common media ...

Longevity medicine is becoming more mainstream. While benefits exists, an expert physician wants patients to remain cautious ...

This week in science: how eating meat could be associated with a longer life; a switch for fat cell production; how space ...