As the year draws to a close, we take a look at some of the biggest science stories of the year, and why they matter.

New images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS debunk 'cloaking' myths. Astronomers reveal a thinning coma as the visitor heads ...

Clear out your shelves for a bumper new crop of books by authors including Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Xand Van Tulleken, ...

A strange world just 47 light-years from Earth is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about alien planets. Hidden ...

You're going to see a lot of stories in 2026 claiming soon-to-be-achieved science and tech advances. Here are the ones just ...

Some scientific breakthroughs may be lost to time due to scandal and redaction, while others are simply a case of waiting for ...

With 3I/ATLAS streaking away from our planet, speculation remains as to whether the interstellar comet is alien or not.

Europa has a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy shell, with more than twice the amount of water in all of Earth’s oceans ...

A team of astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope to capture with direct imaging asteroids smashing into each other ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

A new anomaly related to the size of particles in the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has been detected. This was reported in his blog by Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb.