In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...

Los Angeles city and county officials have issued hundreds of mandatory evacuation orders for some of the areas scarred by the devastating wildfires nearly a year ago. Meanwhile, the National Weather ...

Several days of rain and powerful wind gusts are in the forecast this week when a winter storm has already led to evacuation warnings in parts of Los Angeles County settles into Southern California ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A cold winter storm is moving into Southern California, with the risk of flash ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Southern California is preparing for a powerful winter storm over the Christmas holiday, with forecasters warning of heavy rainfall, gusty winds, and potential flooding across the region. According to ...

We started tracking the chance of a Christmas week storm early last week, and the forecast has taken better shape — snow is on the way to New England and will overspread the Boston region Tuesday and ...

The damaging winds caused by a massive coast-to-coast storm that brought impacts to more than 30 states from the Northwest to the Northeast are easing up on Saturday after reports of 60+ mph winds in ...

For the first time in nearly a month, a storm system carrying rain for the entire Bay Area region descended into the area from the Pacific Northwest early Wednesday, spreading precipitation beyond ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

The Pacific Northwest has faced significant flooding in the past week. Powerful winds from another storm have compounded the misery. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather team.