Comet 3I/ATLAS is getting greener and brighter as it approaches Earth
New telescope images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS confirm that the mysterious object has gotten brighter and greener since its close approach to the sun in late October. This increase in activity could portend new, bright outbursts of cometary material as...
Strange, 7-hour explosion from deep space is unlike anything scientists have seen — Space photo of the week
A gamma-ray burst (GRB) — the most energetic type of explosion in the universe since the Big Bang — is detected once every day, on average. But what happened on July 2, 2025, was highly unusual: NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which has been orbiting Earth...
The UN’s International Asteroid Warning Network is closely watching comet 3I/ATLAS. Here’s why.
As the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS prepares for its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19, it's being monitored not just by space agencies but also the United Nations. The comet, which will come within roughly 167 million miles (270 million kilometers) of our planet,...
‘Unprecedented’: Woman delivers full-term abdominal pregnancy while also having 22-pound cyst removed
In a remarkable medical development out of California, a woman preparing for surgery to remove a large cyst received an astonishing revelation. A routine pre-operative pregnancy test yielded a positive result, quickly leading to the discovery that she was, in fact,...
How are ‘traumatic tattoos’ made, and do you have one?
While most tattoos are deliberately chosen and painstakingly applied, a strikingly different form of body art can emerge unexpectedly from injury. These unintended dermal etchings are known as "traumatic tattoos," and they bear no relation to the needles, inks, or...
‘Architects of AI’ named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2025 is not a single person. Instead, the magazine has recognised the year's most influential figure as "the architects" of artificial intelligence (AI). Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, Meta head Mark Zuckerberg, X owner Elon Musk and...
OpenAI makes $1bn deal to bring Disney characters to ChatGPT and Sora
Disney has agreed to invest $1bn (£740m) in OpenAI as part of a deal which will let people use many of its iconic characters in the chatbot ChatGPT and video-generation tool Sora. It is the first major studio to license parts of its catalogue to the tech giant, in a...
Councillor says AI video of mayor ‘serves purpose’
New materials could boost the energy efficiency of microelectronics
MIT researchers have developed a new fabrication method that could enable the production of more energy efficient electronics by stacking multiple functional components on top of one existing circuit. In traditional circuits, logic devices that perform computation,...
James Webb Space Telescope discovers a hot Jupiter exoplanet leaking twin gas tails that defy explanation
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two staggeringly long tails composed of helium that currently defy explanation. The observations represent the first study of gases leaking from a planet...