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Pentagon is struggling to explain more than 170 fresh UFO reports, new document revealsNearly half of all new UFO cases opened in 2022 cannot be explained, Pentagon officials wrote.
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Spectacular Butterfly Nebula offers a glimpse of our sun's final fateNew time-lapse images of the beautiful Butterfly Nebula come closer to explaining its spectacular strangeness.
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Earth reaches its closest point to the sun — just in time to be slammed by a solar stormA minor G1-class geomagnetic storm will hit Earth right as our planet reaches perihelion, its closest point to the sun.
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The 10 most massive black hole findings from 2022From "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.
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The 10 most jaw-dropping space images of 2022Cosmic cliffs, smiling suns and Martian "polygons" made this year a blast for stargazers everywhere.
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Mars InSight lander sends bittersweet goodbye selfie after 4 years of revealing the Red Planet's mysteriesThe robot that made 'Marsquake' a part of our vocabulary is finally dead in the Martian dust.
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US military reports 'several hundred' UFO sightings in 2022, Pentagon officials claimUFO reports from U.S. military personnel are flooding the government's new All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
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What will NASA's Artemis I mission teach us?Launching the world's most powerful rocket is just the beginning.
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The brightest, most energetic explosions in the universe don't come from where we thoughtWhile tracking an incredibly bright gamma-ray burst to its origins, scientists uncovered a hidden explosion that could upend decades of research.
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Watch the 'Cold Moon' eclipse Mars during the final full moon of 2022The 'Cold Moon,' the final full moon of 2022, will appear to swoop in front of Mars in a phenomenon called lunar occultation.
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Eerie green fireball detected hours before smashing into Lake Ontario in the dead of nightA 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.
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The Leonid meteor shower peaks this week. Here's how to watch.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.
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Crushed-up planets around dead stars could rewrite the history of the solar systemA new study of white dwarfs with "polluted" atmospheres is causing scientists to rethink how and when planets form.
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Scientists discover massive 'extragalactic structure' behind the Milky WayAn 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.
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Gorgeous and ghostly photos of the Beaver blood moon total lunar eclipseThe total lunar eclipse that unfolded on Nov. 8 was the last one for the next three years, according to astronomers.
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Last total lunar eclipse until 2025 rises on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Here's how to watch.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.
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The 'Beaver Blood Moon' rises (and eclipses) on Nov. 8. Here’s how to watch.November’s full moon, also known as the Beaver Moon, rises on Nov. 8 during a total lunar eclipse. Here’s how to watch.
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Russia declassifies footage of 'Tsar Bomba' — the most powerful nuclear bomb in historyIn 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.
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Most UFOs are 'Chinese surveillance' drones and 'airborne clutter,' Pentagon officials revealThe 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.
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Where is Einstein's brain?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?
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Air pressure makes Mount Everest 'shrink' by thousands of feet, new study findsSeasonal changes in air pressure sometimes make Mount Everest's "perceived elevation" to shrink by thousands of feet, a new study finds.
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Watch a 'ring of fire' eclipse play out from space in epic new NASA footageA partial solar eclipse on Oct. 25 looked like an epic ring of fire when viewed by NASA's Hinode satellite, new footage reveals.
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Collapsed Arecibo telescope offers near-Earth asteroid warning from beyond the graveThe famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico completely collapsed in 2020. Now, scientists going through its final observations offer a major new asteroid report.
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Adorable 'smiling' sun could batter Earth with geomagnetic storms this weekendWith 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.
