No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is science.org legit or a scam?
Official site of the journal Science by AAAS with clean scans and a 31-year-old domain registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site is the long-established home of the academic journal Science run by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned zero flags, and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The domain is over 31 years old with valid SSL from Amazon, which strongly supports legitimacy. Our research located active business registration for AAAS in the United States and found zero scam reports or complaints. The single redirect is the only minor note, but it does not change the overall clean profile.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for science.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- science.org is the official website of the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- AAAS is a United States–based international nonprofit organization
- Wikipedia and official AAAS pages confirm Science as the peer-reviewed academic journal of AAAS, one of the world's top academic journals
- No scam, fraud, or complaint reports specifically targeting science.org found in searches
- Domain has been active for over 31 years (11421 days as provided)
- Searches for 'science.org scam' primarily return articles about general scientific fraud or unrelated domains like materials-science.org
AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) is a US-based international nonprofit organization that publishes the journal Science
Our research confirms science.org is the official domain of the journal Science published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. No scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative mentions were located across web sources.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://science.org/
- 2403https://www.science.org/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on science.org and not a lookalike like s-cience.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on science.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- science.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. science.org presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 116 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- science.org is 31.3 years old, registered on 2/23/1995 through Network Solutions, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report science.org as clean.
- No. science.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- science.org resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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