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The Hera probe arrives this November to carefully measure the damage from the asteroid that NASA smashed on purpose in 2022.

The 2026 Physics Nobel honors IceCube, the strange ice telescope buried in Antarctica that hunts invisible cosmic neutrinos.

Mummy yeast living on Ötzi, the 5,300-year-old Iceman, just baked real, edible bread. Here’s how scientists actually did it.

Scientists wired up haunted house visitors and discovered the fear lab effect: most people left happier than when they arrived.

A hidden dwarf planet sat unseen for a decade until the Rubin Observatory’s very first test images finally revealed 2026 ED138.

BepiColombo arrives at Mercury on November 21, a year late after a thruster scare. Find out why it took so long to get there.

Japan’s MMX probe is already on its way to Phobos, Mars’ largest moon, aiming to bring the first sample of it back to Earth.

Three scientists built a light switch for neurons using a pond alga, and it just won them the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Meet the ice telescope that won the 2026 Physics Nobel: a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice built to catch cosmic neutrinos.

A world 20 light-years from Earth cycles through just three weather states that repeat like clockwork, according to new James Webb observations.