The mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to Earth on Friday, offering scientists a rare ...

The comet, which hails from outside our solar system, is expected to speed closest to Earth on Friday, Dec. 19, before ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was shot to death at his Brookline apartment Monday night, prompting a homicide investigation ...

A mysterious cloud of ultra-hot dust around Kappa Tucanae A may finally have an explanation: a hidden companion star. The ...

According to OpenAI, the revamped image generator offers dramatically improved instruction-following, far more precise ...

California locals have been experiencing mysterious health issues since a 400-mile-long blanket of radiation fog engulfed ...

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

Almost a thousand years since its formation, the Crab Nebula sports complex shells of plasma, filled with tendrils, filaments ...

Large phytoplankton blooms north of the Hawaiian Islands have been seen in satellite imagery as vast swirls of color nearly ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...