By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...

Nine newspapers have been accused of being “profoundly irresponsible” for publishing a cartoon suggesting repeated calls for ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS. In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

A dedicated scan for signs of radio-transmitting technology in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has come back with absolute cometary radio silence. The team searched for artificial technosignatures across ...

The mysterious space rock suggested to be a hostile alien spaceship was due to make its closest approach to Earth today (Dec 19). The rare interstellar visitor, designated Comet 3I/ATLAS, was ...

Did an alien spacecraft just fly by Earth? That’s the question a lot of people, including Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, are asking right now. A massive interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS which ...

I don’t think anyone declared it, but 2025 was a big year for comets. There was comet Lemmon, which was discovered in January and stayed in the news for a good nine months. The images of Lemmon’s long ...

An astrophotograph of the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS highlights its green coma and a wandering blue-tinted ion tail. (Copyright Victor Sabet and Julien De ...