Astronauts aboard the ISS have captured rare, invisible lightning phenomena hidden above Earth’s storms, revealing explosive secrets that could disrupt planes, satellites, and even our climate.

Bill shape affects how efficiently a hummingbird feeds and how it competes with other hummingbirds. Because of humans, they have evolved.

A T. Rex missing link, a spike-fossil and a raptor still eating its dinner are just a few of the interesting dinosaur discoveries in 2025.

In this James Webb telescope image, the gigantic molecular cloud near our galaxy's center appears as a canvas of pink and purple clouds set against a shadowy backdrop.

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission arriving in 2026 might solve the mystery.

One of the toughest yet most rewarding annual display of "shooting stars" peaks overnight on Jan. 3-4, 2026 — here’s how to catch the Quadrantid meteor shower.

Our pick of the best astrophotography images captured in 2025, sent to use by photographers across the globe.

More than 25 million cubic yards of rock and ice broke loose and plunged into Greenland's Dickson Fjord, creating a 650-foot-high mega-tsunami

A mysterious force called Dark Energy might be changing, in a way that challenges our current understanding of the nature of time and space.

A record-bright LFBOT exposes violent encounters between black holes and stars, helping astronomers understand extreme black hole systems.

Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

A sonic boom advisory has been issued for a SpaceX launch planned for this weekend from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

New research shows that warm ocean currents triggered a rapid collapse of part of East Antarctica’s ice sheet 9,000 years ago, offering clues about future sea level rise.

Laurent Simons, a 15-year-old Belgian researcher, has earned a PhD in quantum physics and says his work in ultracold systems could one day help extend healthy human lifespans.

While space is often referred to as a vacuum, it isn't completely empty.

Scientists in eastern China uncovered dinosaur eggs packed with giant crystals, revealing unusual fossilization processes and new clues about prehistoric development.

Scientists adapted a method that can produce double the amount of hydrogen when splitting water molecules with electricity.

Is Earth safe from Apophis? ESA and JAXA join forces for a mission that could change planetary defense forever!

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, transmitting the Black Death from infected rats to millions of people.

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of these bursts are observed to flash and fade within a few seconds to minutes. But on 2 July 2025, astronomers were alerted to a GRB sou…

Arizona takes the No. 1 spot for the best places to see the Northern Lights in December. Learn what makes it the top destination.

Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don’t have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out orbits in complex three-body systems, like those in Cis-lunar space, which is between the Earth and the Moon, they’d rather someone else d…

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.