Brandon Specktor

With three dark blotches popping up in the sun's atmosphere, our closest star seems to 'smile' even as it pelts our planet with charged-up solar wind.

Newly released video shows a gang of killer whales in South Africa attack and slaughter a great white shark.

Following years of increased government interest in unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), NASA has officially launched a nine-month investigation into uncovering their mysteries.

In June 2015, a little-known type of aurora cut a Grand-Canyon-size ozone hole in Earth's mesosphere. Scientists have finally assessed the damage.

On Tuesday, Oct. 25, half the world saw the moon's shadow creep over the surface of the sun in the year's last partial solar eclipse.

The towering pillars of creation, captured by the James Webb Telescope, are a nursery of newborn stars that’s been slowly destroying itself for millions of years.

A jet of particles released by two colliding stars appears to be moving seven times faster than the speed of light — but astronomers blame a cosmic illusion known as superluminal motion.

A recent report about pitch-black "phantom" UFOs in the skies over Ukraine has been discredited by the Ukrainian government and by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb.

Could alien life be hiding in the multiverse? New studies say, "sure!"

Fifteen of 34 dead beluga whales tested positive for a potentially lethal cat-poop parasite.

The CIA is the latest investor in Colossal Biosciences, a company that wants to bring woolly mammoths and Tasmanian tigers back from extinction using DNA editing.

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

A monster merger between two black holes sent ripples through time and space, and may prove Einstein right about a gravitational phenomenon called precession.

The Draconid meteor shower peaks on Oct. 8 and 9, but will be largely outshined by the full Hunter's Moon.

Astronomers have discovered a rare binary star system with an orbital period of just 51 minutes – a blazing new record.

October’s full moon, also called the Hunter’s Moon, rises Oct. 9. Here’s how to watch, and the story behind its name.

Where are all the galaxy's dead stars hiding? New research draws the map.

When large asteroids hit the Earth, they trigger mass extinctions and climate chaos. But could an asteroid destroy the planet entirely?

Astronomers modeled the stunning Cat's Eye Nebula in 3D, revealing the mysterious planetary nebula's history for the first time.

New research suggests that a strange 'ripple' is causing the Milky Way's stars to vibrate out of step, and an ancient collision with Sagittarius may be to blame.

Chinese researchers have discovered a brand new type of crystal in a sample of moon rocks, as well as a source of helium-3 — a potential fuel for nuclear fusion reactors.

The James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on Neptune to reveal the icy planet's collection of little-known rings

Why are sunspots black? According to astronomers, it may be a big, cosmic optical illusion.

Astronomers are using the James Webb Space Telescope to look back in time. How is this possible? It's just the nature of light, according to NASA.