NASA’s Curiosity rover is investigating strange spiderweb-like ridges on Mars that may reveal a hidden chapter of the planet’s watery history. These “boxwork” formations likely formed when groundwater ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

A Czechoslovakian Wolfdog ran the home stretch during a cross-country race. Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP via Getty Images VERONA, Italy — Of course, there were the medals. The jaw-dropping feats of ...

It isn’t just you. The market is weird. Stocks are swinging about as though there’s a full-blown crisis, while the S&P 500 is just 2% from its high. One way to measure the scale of moves is to look at ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

If you are reading this on the East Coast, congratulations on the warmer weather you’re finally getting this week. It was cold and snowy for a while there. Here in the West, we wish we’d been in your ...

Dating all the way back to 1923, Weird Tales is easily one of the most iconic pulp magazines ever published. That venerable series is returning in a new form in 2026, as Monstrous Books aims to revive ...

Some people love the ’80s when it comes to movies — and it makes sense. That was a different era that changed cinema across multiple genres. But if you’re into comedy, you probably know John Hughes‘ ...