The three-dimensional view will help scientists learn more about the origins of life in the Milky Way galaxy and how the ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third known interstellar comet after 2017's 1I/'Oumuamua and 2019's 2I/Borisov. It was discovered on July 1, 2025 and made its closest approach to the sun in October. Now it is ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected, will swing closest to Earth overnight from Thursday to Friday (Dec. 18 to 19). Here’s how to see it.

Launched in March, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors.

The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to ...

A forgotten stone staircase in the ruins of Pompeii has turned out to be anything but a dead end, opening a fresh line of ...

For most of human history, maps have flattened the world. Cities appeared as outlines, buildings as blocks of colour, and entire neighbourhoods were reduced to symbols on paper or screens. That ...

A rare earthquake in Myanmar revealed how a long, mature fault can transmit energy directly to the surface. The discovery may change how scientists evaluate the danger posed by major faults around the ...

This panoramic view of SPHEREx's first all-sky map simulates how the sky looks to the telescope. It transitions between ...