Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. One of the great mysteries of modern astronomy has been ...

A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The ...

One of the universe's deep mysteries just got a lot stranger. Astrophysicists have discovered a clue that could help explain why, every once in a while, superfast bursts of radio waves flash across ...

One of the universe's deep mysteries just got a lot stranger. Astrophysicists have discovered a clue that could help explain why, every once in a while, superfast bursts of radio waves flash across ...

Fast radio bursts are having a moment in the science community. After another repeating fast radio signal was traced to a nearby galaxy last month, a new study found that this burst occurs in a ...

About 8,200 years ago, in one of the last places settled by humans, prehistoric peoples began painting comblike designs as the climate shifted. By Becky Ferreira In the stark inland desert of ...

A pattern of up to five orange lights seen floating over the ocean off San Diego left residents guessing — and some “freaking out.” Screengrab from Twitter video A mysterious pattern of up to five ...

LA JARA - Dave Valdez still doesn't know what happened to his oat field August 15 when he discovered a section of it was flattened in a pattern, almost like a crop circle. Valdez discovered it when he ...