The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar comet as the object nears its closest approach to Earth later this month. Comet 3I/ATLAS has ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

At Ford Field on Thursday, Amon-Ra St. Brown and the Detroit Lions (7-5) face Javonte Williams and the Dallas Cowboys (6-5-1) in a matchup featuring two of the brightest stars in the NFL, beginning at ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Trump administration is seeking to weaken environmental protections for fish and pump more water to farmlands ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

Mr. Giles is a novelist and the former executive Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair. Anyone who’s published a book or tried to has had even indispensable friends and family tell them why they’re not ...

When a plate drops or a glass smashes, you're annoyed by the mess and the cost of replacing them. But for some physicists, the broken pieces are a source of fascination: Why does everything break into ...

A dropped plate, a smashed sugar cube and a broken drinking glass all seem to follow the same law of physics when it comes to how many fragments of a given size they will shatter into. For several ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are most likely to enter our solar system from two specific directions, a new study suggests. What does it mean for Earth? When you purchase through links on our ...