Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

Looking back on Maryland politics from 2025, I think about visuals that have been imprinted on me. They capture or reveal ...

The third known visitor from another star system, 3I/ATLAS, has already delivered on one of the biggest promises in modern astronomy: a chance to treat an interstellar object as a potential alien ...

A Tribune review of court filings, databases and other public records detailing the scope of the incursion and typical costs shows how much the federal government has spent since September.

Infielder Kazuma Okamoto and the Toronto Blue Jays agreed to a $60 million, four-year contract, two people familiar with the ...

A once-straightforward path to U.S. citizenship has become fraught as federal officials cancel many naturalization interviews ...

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

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

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

Signs of Danger is a falling-sand-physics action-roguelite with built-in online and couch co-op multiplayer. Drop onto dangerously reactive alien planets where every pixel is physically simulated.

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...