Latest articles by Brandon Specktor
Researchers found evidence of an elusive magneto-rotational hypernova explosion for the first time ever.
Scientists used solar wind to make the first 3D map of the heliosphere, which protects Earth from deadly cosmic radiation.
New seismic models show that Earth's inner core may be growing faster in the east than in the west, creating a 'lopsided' pattern at the center of our planet.
NASA shared an image of the stunning Necklace Nebula, created by two stars locked in a dance of mutually assured destruction.
A bottle of merlot that spent a year aboard the International Space Station is up for sale at Christie's auction house. It is expected to earn roughly $1 million
Earth's continents have been leaking nutrients into the ocean for at least 3.7 billion years, new research suggests.
Russia is building modules for a new space station, which could potentially replace the International Space Station by the year 2025, officials said.
Enormous "spiders" cover the Martian south pole, and scientists finally have experimental evidence to show how they're created.
Astronomers discovered a radio structure that looks like a gigantic jellyfish, though it only glows in certain wavelengths.
The Hyades — the closest star cluster to our sun — is being stretched by an invisible 'lump,' researchers say.
The tail is invisible to the naked eye but appears on all-sky cameras during every new moon.
Astronomers detected the first-known 'space hurricane' raging over the North Pole for 8 hours in 2014, a new study found.
Scientists can't agree on why these hills in the Russian Arctic ripple with stripes.
Colliding dust particles on Mars probably produce static electricity, a new experiment reveals.
The world's largest iceberg has disintegrated into an 'alphabet soup' of mini ice island, new NASA imagery shows.
Minimoon SO 2020, a rocket booster that has been orbiting Earth for about 60 years, will drift off forever next month.
This hazy spiral galaxy is one of the largest in the Virgo cluster — a collection of more than 2,000 galaxies.
A new paper proposes building a 'megasatellite' of human habitats around the dwarf planet Ceres.
Humanity is barreling toward a "ghastly future" of mass extinctions, health crises and constant climate-induced disruptions to society.
The CIA just turned over 2,700 pages of UFO-related material to The Black Vault, a free repository of UFO records online.
Like a teetering top, Mars refuses to rotate on a straight axis.
Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn will form a tight triangle in the sky this Sunday during a rare 'triple conjunction' event.
Mars' Valles Marineris is nearly 10 times as long as the Grand Canyon and three times as deep, but nobody knows how it formed.
