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The Cold Moon — the 13th and final full moon of 2023 — will rise on Dec. 26 and reach higher in the night sky than any other. It will also appear full on Dec. 25 and 27.

The first images from Euclid, planets, invisible rings, and the first hints of a neutron star’s wispy magnetic field. Here are the 8 space photos that melted our minds in 2023

Move over, dinosaurs: It's time for some of our favorite non-dino fossil stories of 2023 to shine.

Scientists have been vollying the question back and forth for more than a century.

The skull of a woman from colonial Indonesia bears sharp force trauma, possibly due to slavers or because she was seen as a sorcerer.

Pigs that swallowed the vibrating pill before meals ate around 40% less than those that did not, according to the study.

The ancient Scythians, a nomadic people known for their gold and warrior ways, used human skin for leather, a new study finds.

For decades, measurements of the universe's expansion have suggested a disparity known as the Hubble tension, which threatens to break cosmology as we know it. Now, on the eve of its second anniversary, a new finding by the James Webb Space Telescope has only entrenched the mystery.

From its strange "spiral signals" to a libido switch, the brain contains myriad mysteries that scientists are still working to unravel.

The oldest ever black holes, a preview of our solar system's gory demise, and a measurement of distant starlight that threatens to bring the standard of cosmology crashing down — here are the JWST's wildest discoveries of 2023.

University of Chicago astronomer Wendy Freedman tells us how she's searching for an answer to the Hubble tension — a discrepancy between measurements of our universe's expansion that could threaten the dominant model of how the universe has grown since the Big Bang.