In the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree sits Giant Rock, one of the largest freestanding boulders in North America. But the rock’s story is far stranger than its size. In the 1930s a hermit named Frank ...

“Poor Parking Skills” shows an alien who doesn’t seem so great behind the wheel of their UFO. Photo by Mette Huberman. You don’t need to go to Europe to see some well-preserved trompe l’oeil (trick-of ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb says interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely comes from the Milky Way's disc, as astronomers ...

Astronomers have spotted something unusual in a comet passing through our Solar System. 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed interstellar visitor ever s.

A visitor from another star system is creating excitement in the astronomy community. The comet 3I/ATLAS which was first spotted in July 2025 contains chemical clues that scientists can use to ...

What can a piece of debris from another star tell astronomers about planets they may never see directly? The answer has changed dramatically since the first confirmed object from another star crossed ...

Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully ...

Scientists are scrambling to explain why interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is carrying life's chemical building blocks at concentrations never before seen, and it makes its final pass through our cosmic n ...

As Nicolas Roeg’s enigmatic, unclassifiable film – in which David Bowie plays an alien visiting Earth – turns 50, we look back at Tom Milne’s deciphering of it. From our Summer 1976 issue.

A federal judge ordered a 14-year-old taken by immigration agents in Marlborough and driven to New York to be returned to her aunt in Massachusetts.

A 14-year-old from Marlborough is back in Massachusetts on Thursday after being detained by federal immigration agents earlier this week and brought to New York.