Imagining every drop of Earth’s water hurled into the Sun sounds like a last-ditch cosmic fire extinguisher, but the physics ...

A spectacular supermoon and the first meteor shower of the new year will soon appear in the California night sky. The ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

Our planet was rocked by some of the worst geomagnetic storms in more than 20 years. Triggered by a slew of solar flares, the ...

By Michael AllenFor the first time, scientists have used NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white ...

Space has captured human imagination for centuries. Yet along with our fascination, countless misconceptions have spread like ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak overnight between Jan. 2 and Jan. 3, offering a brief but intense burst of meteors.

The first “Big One” earthquake in more than a decade has rattled the world. What if it had happened anywhere else? Say, ...

Brian T. Allen, art critic E Is for Edward, a centennial celebration of the work of Edward Gorey, reminds us that savants still wander the Earth. “I’ve been murdering children in my books for years,” ...

Look back on our live coverage as Sydney celebrated New Year’s Eve and welcomed 2026 amid a heightened police presence ...

Beaver Dam State Park near Caliente, Nevada isn’t just real—it’s the living, breathing version of those impossibly beautiful images.

You can say a lot about 2025. Good, bad, apocalyptic. One thing you can't say is that it was lacking in music. Our album ...