Daniel Okafor

A landslide in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord sent a wave 1,580 feet up the walls in 2025. Researchers say thousands of small tremors and a retreating glacier were clues a monitoring system could use.

Perseverance has now driven farther than any vehicle on another world, passing Opportunity’s record in about a third of the time. Self-driving software did most of the work.

Robert E. Hall of Stanford and Michael Woodford of Columbia share the 2026 economics Nobel for building the models central banks use to steady the economy. Here’s what their work means for interest rates, recessions and your budget.

Physicists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory updated a 70-year-old fusion rule and found a less energy-hungry path to ignition, plus a warning about tungsten walls.

NOAA now gives the current El Niño an 83% chance of reaching record strength by late 2026. Here’s what forecasters said and what a very strong El Niño typically means for U.S. winter weather.

Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, who defended apartheid’s opponents and later led a war crimes tribunal and the UN human rights office, wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on peace and international law.

The Swedish Academy honored the 76-year-old Canadian writer “for her bold and inventive oeuvre.” Here is who she is, and which of her books to read first.

Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin–Madison wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for leading IceCube, the cubic-kilometer detector buried in Antarctic ice that found high-energy neutrinos from deep space.

Researchers revisited a logging trial in Australia’s mountain ash forests that sat neglected for decades. Heavily thinned stands grew bigger trees and stored as much or more carbon in their wood than unharvested areas.

Millions of people will practice earthquake safety during the Great ShakeOut on October 15. Here’s how to take part and what to do when the ground starts shaking.

ESA’s Juice spacecraft flew 5,370 miles above the Indian Ocean on Sept. 28, using Earth’s gravity to bend its path toward Jupiter while saving fuel for the icy moons.

On October 2, 1976, the BBC launched a live, phone-in Saturday show where kids swapped their toys. It set the template for children’s TV for decades.