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A cluster composed of thousands of stars may dissolve to become a mob of dozens of black holes in a billion years.

The attack was unusual and was "not normal bear behavior," an expert said.

A mysterious illness is spreading throughout bird populations in the eastern U.S.

Dark matter could be even weirder than anyone thought, say cosmologists who are suggesting this mysterious substance could interact with its...

Biologists aren't entirely sure why thousands of jellyfish are swarming by Rhode Island.

Paleontologists have revealed that a group of dinosaurs, known as alvarezsaurs, underwent a rapid reduction in size to adapt to widespread e...

People who test positive for the coronavirus should steer clear of their pets.

Human remains dating to the 14th and 15th centuries show that people who lived in what is now Gabon modified their faces through tooth remov...

Satellite data finds that June 2021 was the hottest June ever recorded in North America.

Thousands of medieval Islamic tombs in eastern Sudan were arranged in hard-to-detect patterns, with sacred "parent" tombs hosting subcluster...

An invasive species is a type of animal, plant, fungus or any other living thing that has arrived in a new environment and can harm other sp...

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare instance of Neanderthal-created art in a German cave once famous for its "unicorn bones."

Here are our favorite stories about sharks, from an ancient Greenland shark to a behemoth "queen of the ocean."

A lab study suggests that brown trout can experience withdrawal from meth after exposure to the drug.

The artist's remains are reportedly buried in France's Chateau d'Amboise. Now, scientists are one step closer to identifying them.

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for 135 million years. There were many types of dinosaurs, in all shapes and sizes.

Archaeologists searching for a royal palace in Germany have discovered a 1,000-year-old church constructed for Otto the Great (also called O...

A towering inferno in the Caspain Sea is believed to have been caused by a rare explosion of a mud volcano in Azerbaijan's oil and gas field...

Astronomer Wendy Freedman suggests that the latest observations of red giant stars could be closing the gap on the Hubble tension.

The best astronomy photos of the year invite the eye upward and outward, bringing stunning views such as auroras above Earth and visions of...

Why do humans blink so much?

Seven Viking tombs holding well-preserved skeletons, including possible twin infants, have been discovered in the Swedish town of Sigtuna.

This is the first time ever that an animal has been documented performing this bizarre trick. The researchers who discovered it think studyi...

On July 5, 2021, Earth will be at the farthest point in its orbit around the sun, also known as aphelion.

New evidence shows that watermelons were first domesticated in Sudan, leading experts to think the region rivals Iraq as a cradle of agricul...