As the year draws to a close, we take a look at some of the biggest science stories of the year, and why they matter.

The past 12 months have read like a science-fiction novel, with thousands of UFOs swarming over the US East Coast, an ...

A comet from another star system is sweeping through our cosmic backyard and, for the first time, astronomers have picked up ...

While there have been a lot of personnel changes over the past two decades, including Weatherly’s 2016 exit and Harmon’s 2021 departure, NCIS has remained a gift of a show — one that keeps on giving, ...

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

Clear out your shelves for a bumper new crop of books by authors including Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Xand Van Tulleken, ...

A strange world just 47 light-years from Earth is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about alien planets. Hidden ...

You're going to see a lot of stories in 2026 claiming soon-to-be-achieved science and tech advances. Here are the ones just ...

Scientists discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the planet’s total to 274. Many of these moons are “only a few ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is confirmed as a natural comet from beyond our solar system, posing no threat to Earth despite ...

The answer is as obvious as it seems – the Earth looks flat when you're standing on it, not cone-shaped. Visual evidence ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...