Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb argues that the anomalous interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS exposes a critical gap in humanity's ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...

The markings, which appear on the outside of the fruit, are the result of a virus. They are safe to eat, even if they do look pretty weird.

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

One mission would involve a full 300 sols on the Red Planet, with the goal of finding extinct or current life on Mars. But ...

This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers ...

Scientists reveal Priocharax rex, a tiny Amazonian fish with a strange skin “wing” that redefines evolution in miniature.

Charles “Buffalo” Jones invented the cow-buffalo hybrid in 1888. His intention? To create the hardiest free-range livestock ...

Alien invasion stories are among the earliest science fiction in the Western canon—they not only explore the strange and ...

The nature documentary series uses new research and photorealistic CGI to bring the huge, bizarre animals of the Ice Age back ...