Brandon Specktor

The Danuri spacecraft arrived in lunar orbit in Dec. 2022, and its first image dump is out of this world.

An amateur astronomer witnessed the moment that the green comet C/2022 E3 had part of its tail blasted away by a coronal mass ejection.

Nearly half of all new UFO cases opened in 2022 cannot be explained, Pentagon officials wrote.

New time-lapse images of the beautiful Butterfly Nebula come closer to explaining its spectacular strangeness.

A minor G1-class geomagnetic storm will hit Earth right as our planet reaches perihelion, its closest point to the sun.

From "rogue" black holes cruising the cosmos to one of the oldest black hole ancestors in this universe, this year's findings truly sucked us in.

The robot that made 'Marsquake' a part of our vocabulary is finally dead in the Martian dust.

UFO reports from U.S. military personnel are flooding the government's new All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

Launching the world's most powerful rocket is just the beginning.

While tracking an incredibly bright gamma-ray burst to its origins, scientists uncovered a hidden explosion that could upend decades of research.

The 'Cold Moon,' the final full moon of 2022, will appear to swoop in front of Mars in a phenomenon called lunar occultation.

A renegade meteor flared in Earth’s atmosphere in the wee hours of Nov. 19, creating a bright green fireball in the sky over the eastern US and Canada.

Earth is about to pass through the debris trail left behind 30 years ago by comet Tempel-Tuttle. Here's how to catch the sky show.

A new study of white dwarfs with "polluted" atmospheres is causing scientists to rethink how and when planets form.

An uncharted region of space known as the "zone of avoidance" lurks behind the Milky Way's center – and astronomers just found an enormous, multi-galaxy structure there.

The total lunar eclipse that unfolded on Nov. 8 was the last one for the next three years, according to astronomers.

The moon will pass through the darkest part of Earth's shadow for nearly 90 minutes on Tuesday, but only viewers in part of the world will be able to see it.

November’s full moon, also known as the Beaver Moon, rises on Nov. 8 during a total lunar eclipse. Here’s how to watch.

In 1961, Russia detonated the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuke in history, over a remote Arctic island. New footage has been declassified and shared on YouTube.

The U.S. government has officially started to explain some of the most infamous UFO encounters of the last decade, with China and weather balloons as top offenders.

Following his death in 1955, Albert Einstein's brain was removed, cut into 240 pieces and slowly distributed to scientists around the world. But where is Einstein's brain now?

Seasonal changes in air pressure sometimes make Mount Everest's "perceived elevation" to shrink by thousands of feet, a new study finds.

A partial solar eclipse on Oct. 25 looked like an epic ring of fire when viewed by NASA's Hinode satellite, new footage reveals.

The famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico completely collapsed in 2020. Now, scientists going through its final observations offer a major new asteroid report.