Category: Science

The “morning star” is bright because of several factors, including having an atmosphere filled with sulfuric acid.

Friday, Dec. 19, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

We tested every single pair of Celestron 10×42 binoculars so you don’t have to — find out which one comes out on top.

Researchers say they have created the world’s first scalable atomic quantum processor that achieves record-breaking 99.99% fidelity.

Dec. 20, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute talks about life’s complexities, from its evolution on Earth as a single cell to complex human behavior.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates electrostatic forces using charged water droplets and a knitting needle made of Teflon.

Humans grow tall in spurts, but what’s our fastest period of growth?

Scientists watching the nearby Fomalhaut star system have directly seen two protoplanets smash together for the first time. Then, they saw it happen again.

NASA’s alien-hunting Europa Clipper spacecraft took seven hours of ultraviolet observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while both objects zoom toward Jupiter.

Solve the crossword from our January 2026 issue, in which we take a crack at geological principles

AI is making gains in solving pure math problems. Can it crack the hardest problems in mathematics?

Here’s how to see the Ursid meteor shower, which peaks in dark skies close to a new moon this year.

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected, reached its closest point to Earth overnight from Thursday to Friday (Dec. 18 to 19), and it