Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at ...

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) really do use their massive heads to deliberately push and strike objects. A team of ...

Physicists at New York University in the US have built a new kind of ...

Gas giant Saturn has significantly extended its "who has the most moons in the Solar System" competition, with 11 more moons ...

The night sky is like a picture with lots of stars. Now people are getting really worried about what's happening to it.

Despite advances in psychology, neuroscience, and biology, certain behaviors still leave scientists scratching their heads.

Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals, more ...

Now, China has made history by bringing this technology to the public. Last week, China’s National Medical Products ...

A few viewers and security cameras caught the flash just after 6 a.m. Monday morning.

At the time of the observations, comet 3I/ATLAS had just passed its perihelion, its closest ever approach to the Sun. While ...

New research from the University of St Andrews reports sperm whales headbutting  one another. The behaviour was captured on ...

A 3-foot-wide meteor weighing about a ton broke through the Earth’s atmosphere on Saturday and exploded with the force of 26 ...