One that caught attention from many was a type of sea mollusk that washed ashore on South Padre Island in late May.

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

A bizarre ecosystem discovered 3,640 meters deep in the Arctic reveals "frozen reefs" and alien-like life. Learn about this ...

“Given the mass loss rate measured by the Webb Space Telescope, the gas around 3I/ATLAS would be swept up by the solar wind ...

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...

An instrument aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft captured rare ultraviolet observations of an interstellar comet while Earth-based telescopes were blinded by the Sun. The spacecraft’s unique ...

I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar object ...

Filmed deep off California, a rarely seen seven-arm octopus emerges from ocean darkness, revealing surprising size, unusual feeding habits, and how much of the deep sea remains unexplored by ...

In 1994, the fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter with a force equal to 300 million atomic bombs.

In the summer of 1977, while most people were listening to disco and trying to figure out Star Wars, NASA launched two small spacecraft called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were simple-looking robots ...

Roughly 900 light years from Earth, astronomers have found a world where the weather reads like a fever dream: winds racing ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...