Brandon Specktor

A new image from NASA's HIRISE camera reveals strange 'polygons' cracking open the surface of Mars. It's just a typical sign of spring, scientists say.

New footage shows the mysterious auroral phenomenon called STEVE emerging from a blood-red arc of light in New Zealand in 2015.

Astronomers have peered into the center of the Milky Way and discovered what appears to be a miniature spiral galaxy, swirling around a single large star.

Researchers have published the most detailed map of Antarctica's frigid Southern Ocean to date, including the ocean's new deepest point, the "Factorian Deep."

An asteroid up to three times the size of a blue whale will sail past Earth on June 6, 2022.

New research calculates the odds that humans will contact a 'malicious' alien civilization that wants to invade our planet. Don't worry, the chances are incredibly small.

The near-Earth asteroid 7335 (1989 JA) will make a close approach to our planet on May 27, 2022, flying within about 2.5 million miles of Earth.

The universe may stop expanding in just 100 million years if dark energy decays over time, a new study suggests.

The U.S. government's UFO program, AATIP, was funding secret research into invisibility, wormholes, and antigravity, newly released documents reveal.

1,500 pages of UFO related research has been declassified by the US government following a FOIA request by The Sun

A fireball that blazed through the skies over Papua New Guinea in 2014 was actually a fast-moving object from another star system

'Magnetic anomalies' may be shielding ice in the moon's pitch-black craters, new research suggests.

Scientists discovered the mechanism that causes electrons to 'downpour' into Earth's atmosphere.

Scientists found a remarkably stable 'black widow ' pulsar that could be used to help detect gravitational waves.

Two mild geomagnetic storms are expected to hit Earth on March 14 and 15 after a large coronal outburst, NOAA warns.

A new study shows what happens when the two largest objects in the universe collide.

A Hubble Space Telescope image shows a stunning triple galaxy merger in the constellation Cancer.

A new museum exhibit hopes to uncover the secrets behind the doodles, in-jokes and coded messages on a blackboard that Stephen Hawking kept for more than 35 years.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station snapped this picture of an ancient heart-shaped oasis near the Nile River in Egypt

The highest glacier on Mount Everest is losing ice at an alarming rate, new research finds.

Satellite data shows that Greenland’s ice sheet has lost enough water over 20 years to submerge the entire United States.

Scientists detected two ancient ranges of 'supermountains' that criss-crossed the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago — and may have jump-started animal evolution.

An extremely powerful solar storm pummeled our planet 9,200 years ago, leaving permanent scars on the ice buried deep below Greenland and Antarctica.

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious, flickering object in the Milky Way that belches enormous amounts of energy toward Earth three times an hour.

A collision with a Mars-size planet 4.5 billion years ago may have left a permanent impact on our planet's deep mantle.