With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for.

After soaring for nearly two years, cocoa prices dropped sharply in 2025. However, chocolate, in demand ahead of the festive holiday season, has seen prices rise.

Beneath the Earth’s surface lies a world so extreme and isolated that it seems more like an alien planet than part of our own. Veryovkina Cave, the deepest known cave on Earth, plunges a staggering ...

Two decades after betting on cheap, reusable rockets, Musk’s space company is now a cash-gushing powerhouse — with Starlink driving profits and Wall Street bracing for a blockbuster listing.

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that's been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped ...

Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations on Dec. 6.

One of NASA’s workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to ...

For the first time, we can see and hear lightning-like discharges in Mars' thin atmosphere.

NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

A study led by NYU Abu Dhabi’s Space Exploration Laboratory found underground water that turned sand dunes into solid rock, ...

Justin Cyrus couldn't get investors interested in his idea to build what we'd need to live in space. Now Lunar Outpost has ...