Gallery: Dazzling Long Exposures Capture the Fireflies of Japan

The new image isn’t just stunning—it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion.

The team behind director Takashi Yamazaki’s new film created their kaiju roars by setting up speakers on top of an outdoor dam. The people walking by weren’t prepared for what they heard.

The artist’s macabre short works have been adapted into eerily freaky 30-minute bites for television. We got a sneak preview of the next episode airing on HBO Max.

Made up of small fragments left behind by Halley’s Comet, these meteors are known for being especially bright and speedy.

Scientists can’t agree why reefs in the Red Sea have long been immune to bleaching. The answer could be the key to saving these tough corals as climate change begins taking its toll.

Our top Ego pick is discounted, and our resident leaf blower expert demonstrates how to make a TP cannon.

Optogenetics revolutionized neuroscience, but its origins come from an entirely brainless organism—an alga.

Tropical Storm Isaias is set to become the basin’s first hurricane of the season, bringing life-threatening rain and storm surge to the Gulf Coast.

Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? Disguise them as cute home decor.

Here’s what we know about the record-setting El Niño on a record-hot planet, and the most important questions scientists are trying to answer.

Scientists left structures up to 100 meters under the surface. Here’s what they found when they retrieved them 10 years later.