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Scientists have detected the largest stellar flare ever recorded from Proxima Centauri. The finding changes what we know about stellar flare...

An ancient coronavirus may have infected the ancestors of people living in modern-day East Asia tens of thousands of years ago.

The Pink Moon, the second largest full moon of the year, will light up the sky from Sunday through Wednesday.

She kept both bottles together in her purse.

India reported 312,731 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, the highest single-day increase ever reported worldwide.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has picked three big space companies for the first phase of a larger project to test n...

A two-pronged, pheromone-producing gland in female dragon mantises only pops up when they are ready to mate.

Gut bacteria may help boost the production of key proteins for bone growth and brain development.

Russia is building modules for a new space station, which could potentially replace the International Space Station by the year 2025, offici...

Researchers recently described a new species of amphibious giant centipede in an archipelago in Japan.

Two scribes wrote the famous Great Isaiah Scroll, researchers found with the help of AI and statistics.

Even today, the Gulf Coast still suffers from the effects of the oil spill. But a remarkable cleanup effort has helped the pelican return ho...

China could launch the first module for its own space station this month as the country also prepares to send a large space telescope to joi...

For a few brief minutes, a suborbital rocket from NASA has an ambitious plan to seek out particles from interstellar space.

A metal detectorist uncovered more than 100 artifacts dating to the Iron Age at a hillfort in Germany.

New simulations calculated T. rex speed from the motion of its swaying tail, finding that the massive dinosaur was a mighty slow walker.

Mosasaurus was one of the largest members of the mosasaur family, which were the top predators in the oceans during the age of dinosaurs.

Up to 20,000 people likely cheered and jeered as they watched gladiator and wild animal fights in a newfound Roman-era arena in Turkey.

Soon after archaeologists unearthed an estate from the Roman Empire in the U.K., vandals broke in and damaged it.

Around 120 million years ago, tarantulas first appeared on the Gondwana supercontinent in what is now the America, and then dispersed into A...

Iceberg A68, an enormous hunk of ice that broke off Antarctica in 2017, has finally melted away to nothing in the Atlantic.

Engineers have created the whitest paint ever, and they think it can help fight a warming planet.

Available census reports give conflicting accounts of Ford's birth year.

In April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 people. Two days later the rig capsized, and the pip...

A new study has measured the number of microplastics in the atmosphere and modeled how the tiny particles get transported around the planet.