Tia Ghose

Three hurricanes are churning simultaneously in the Atlantic – a fairly rare occurrence that hasn't been since 2010.

Barely a week after Hurricane Harvey slammed the Texas coast, another monster hurricane is brewing out in the Atlantic.

From flowers that closed prematurely to hundreds of thousands of farmed salmon on the loose, the eclipse had a strange impact on nature yesterday.

People who purchased eclipse viewers for the Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse don't need to throw them away; they can donate them to children for the next eclipse, or hold on to them until 2024.

Even though both look like tinted shades, eclipse viewers are very different from ordinary sunglasses, because they filter out far more light.

Elon Musk has urged a gathering of governors to regulate artificial intelligence now, before potentially dangerous outcomes start occurring.

Stephen Hawking recently described a runaway climate scenario in which Earth turns into a hothouse planet like Venus, but most climate experts say it is a gross exaggeration.

The world's most powerful X-ray laser has just created a molecular "black hole" – a molecule with such a strong positive charge that it sucks in electrons from neighboring atoms.

A massive California landslide that covered a huge swath of a coastal highway in rubble was captured in satellite images.

Mysterious flashes of light shown in images of Earth from space come from ice crystals lodged high in the atmosphere, new research suggests.

Some of the fastest-rising baby names of 2016 were inspired by Star Wars characters – even the evil ones.

Elon Musk posted a prototype of a super-fast electric sled to fast-track cars through underground tunnels in Los Angeles.

Despite decades of research and billions of dollars in investment, no one has a nuclear missile defense system that is remotely reliable, experts say.

Darkness intrudes into light in this spooky satellite image of the Arabian Sea.

Despite proposals by President Trump to drastically slash science budgets, the fiscal year 2017 budget provides funding at roughly the same levels as the prior year.

A mysterious superfluid has demonstrated a negative mass, meaning that if it's pushed to the right, it will move to the left.

An anomaly in the number of antineutrinos produced by nuclear power plants was a result of a modeling error, not a hint of new physics.

A new method could mix dust from the moon or Mars with a series of solvents to create flexible, tough 3D-printed tools.

Yves Meyer, a French mathematician who did pioneering work on a signal processing tool known as wavelet analysis, has won the Abel Prize, one of the top math prizes.

A new image of the James Webb Telescope appears to be filled with ghostly wraiths, thanks to the photo being taken in a darkened room with a long exposure time.

A new form of matter called a time crystal seems to suspend the laws of thermodynamics.