2026 has started off with bright flashes of light in the sky — fireballs, a surprisingly common phenomenon that is often a once-in-a-lifetime sight to see.

"In our solar system, the most massive moon is Ganymede, which is still extremely small compared to what we are inferring here." ...

Astronomers have found a massive cloud of metallic winds orbiting a mystery object in space. The cloud was found when ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months.

Gemstones like precious opal are beautiful to look at and deceivingly complex. As you look at such gems from different angles ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

Astronomers found an iron bar in the Ring Nebula that doesn't match any known stellar phenomenon. Scientists can't explain ...

Writers in the Tang period described “golden armor,” but archaeologists had not previously had a physical example to examine. That gap is what makes this restoration notable: the conservation work ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

In recent weeks, a rumor claiming that Earth would “lose gravity ” for 7 seconds on August 12, 2026, has whipped up an online ...