New images show the sungrazer comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) did not survive its close approach to our home star. Instead, the celestial object briefly turned into a "headless wonder" before fully disintegrating.

When does the next full moon rise? Find out exactly when to see the full moons of 2026, including the full "Flower Moon" in May.

Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) could be visible to the naked eye in the predawn sky after April 13 as it makes a close approach to the sun.

NASA's first set of images captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby are here, and they're stunning.

Artemis II is now the farthest crewed mission from Earth in history. The occasion was marked by a number of poignant moments.

Amid drought and heat waves, April's national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an above-normal risk of wildfires at some point in the next four months.

The newfound coin dates to the 1584 founding of a doomed Spanish settlement in southern Chile.

In the Middle Ages, a man was buried in a Stone Age monument in what is now Spain. Now, we finally know his genetic roots, but his religious beliefs are still a mystery.

An analysis of samples taken from the Shroud of Turin, the cloth thought by some to have been wrapped around Jesus, reveals a rich tapestry of animal and plant DNA. But what does it mean?

The first well-observed "civil war" in wild chimpanzees reveals that shifting social ties alone can fracture a group, igniting deadly conflict between former friends.

Conservationists are celebrating the 105th kākāpō chick to hatch during the 2026 breeding season — the highest number reported since such records began 30 years ago.

A site in southwestern China holds a wide array of strange life-forms that emerged prior to the Cambrian explosion, and it pushes back the origin of complex life by millions of years.

Two researchers snorkeling in a subterranean stream in Texas discovered fossils from the Late Pleistocene epoch, revealing new details about what lived in this ancient ecosystem.

Daily Roundup Friday, March 27, 2026: Your daily roundup of the biggest science stories making headlines.

Scientists in China have announced the first confirmed sighting of the critically endangered Hainan hare in part of its native range in four decades, after spotting its completely flattened carcass on a roadside.

A new map of the "maternal-fetal interface" reveals a new type of cell, as well as the types of cells most likely to be affected in conditions like preeclampsia.

Keratin has been linked to skin diseases and inflammation in the past, but now, a new study may have uncovered one reason why.

Doctors reported a highly unusual case of parasitic fly infection in a woman in Greece.

Modern AI models can create convincing descriptions of images that were never given to them — a phenomenon researchers call a "mirage."

LLMs can accelerate medical research, scientists say, but they come with risks.

A new study reveals that AI decision-making during conflicts is naturally prone to escalation.

Engineers are testing a new "sand battery" that could power industries and communities using stored renewable energy.

Scientists have developed a novel approach to error correction that resulted in the highest-ever fidelity of entangled, logical qubits on a superconducting quantum processor.

CERN scientists transported antimatter by truck for the first time, enabling ultraprecise studies that could reveal why matter dominates the universe.

A new physics paper proposes modifications to Einstein’s theory of relativity that could solve one of the biggest issues about our understanding of the Big Bang.

Chemists say they’ve found a way to turn breadcrumbs into hydrogen, potentially offering a sustainable alternative to one of the most common chemical manufacturing processes.