A rocky planet nearly 50 light-years away appears to be airless, dark, and covered in volcanic or weathered rock, according ...

Explore the latest AI developments including the leaked Claude Sonnet 4.8 model and Google testing Gemini 3.5 in the Arena.

Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with atmosphere, they have a wide range of characteristics distinguishing them. But if ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now on its way out of our solar system, never to return. The comet was only the third-ever detected object to originate from outside our solar system. Traveling at high ...

Every image you’ve seen of the solar system is a simplification — and a misleading one. Space isn’t flat, and there is no real “up” or “down” once you leave Earth. Satellites don’t orbit in a neat ...

You can download and 3D print the little spaceman from Project Hail Mary, and it's inspiring, like the movie itself. James has been writing about technology for years ...

A replica of the spacecraft at the center of the groundbreaking, award-winning NASA mission that “touched the Sun” is now on public display. A full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe — the ...

Apple researchers have created an AI model that reconstructs a 3D object from a single image, while keeping reflections, highlights, and other effects consistent across different viewing angles. Here ...

In late 2025 a mysterious comet flew between the orbits of Earth and Mars and reached a speed of more than 150,000 miles per hour during its closest approach to the sun. The rare interstellar guest to ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur have developed the world's first three dimensional data-driven model to predict solar activity, contributing towards monitoring space ...