On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.
A delicate crescent moon pairs with brilliant Venus after sunset Monday, creating one of May 2026’s easiest and most beautiful skywatching events.
The northern lights may be visible overnight on Saturday, May 16, through Sunday, May 17, after a large coronal hole opened on the sun, sending a super-charged solar wind toward Earth.
Luxury eclipse trips for Aug. 12, 2026, range from Arctic cruises and Ibiza retreats to private charter flights chasing the clearest skies.
ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop. If a paper has “incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation,” such as hallucinated references or “meta-comments” left by an LLM, authors will be […]
George Boyd ran for local office in Norfolk, England, but some said his campaign headshot looked AI-generated, leading to widespread false claims he wasn’t a real person.
Exactly how, when and where to see Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Mercury in May 2026.
A new report from the American Academy of Microbiology examines how attribution science is measuring the infectious disease burden caused by climate change.
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. A few days ago, my esthetician was smearing hot wax on my face. The two caterpillars I call […]
Why does a sneeze take over your whole face? And why can light trigger it in some people? The answers lie in brain evolution and sensory wiring.