A strange, gleaming rock on Mars has jolted planetary scientists out of their routines, not because it is large or dangerous, but because it appears to be wildly out of place. The object, sitting ...

Every region has that one spooky creature that children whisper about, and adults pretend not to believe in. In Latin America ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

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 ...