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That's one theory for how the walrus wound up so far from home.

Beijing and northern China have been hit with one of the worst sandstorms in decades which has increased air pollution concentrations to dan...

We keep getting reminders that the Milky Way's planetary diversity dwarfs what we see in our own solar system.

Scientists think they've spied an alien world that lost its atmosphere — then conjured itself a new one.

Scientists have unveiled plans for a lunar ark on the moon containing genetic information on 6.7 million species to ensure their preservatio...

Space junk moves at 10 times the speed of a bullet from an average gun.

What prompts this lightning-like energy in pets?

A dead sperm whale measuring 52 feet (16 meters) long is rotting away on a beach in southern Australia.

The rocks contain chemical "fingerprints" from when the magma oceans crystallized.

A boy's desert hike with his family led to the discovery of a rare statuette of a bare-breasted woman, used as a protective amulet during th...

The most remote particle detector on Earth has detected the most energetic antimatter neutrino ever, confirming a 51-year-old prediction.

Meerkats and penguins living in zoos had different reactions to the return of visitors after COVID-19 restrictions left them alone in empty...

Since the 1980s, the rate of twin births worldwide has increased by more than 30%.

Archaeologists in the Czech Republic recently discovered a 1,600-year-old grave holding the remains of a woman and several precious artifact...

A unique piece of code verifies the authenticity of the digital art piece.

Here's everything you've ever wanted to know about daylight saving time (often misspelled as "savings"), including times, dates, its history...

The experiment could be a trial for many more even smaller ones probing the long-kept secrets of quantum scale gravity.

If humans don't curb climate change, the average summer could last 6 months long by the year 2100, a new study finds.

A U.S. Air Force base in Texas has taken the first steps to guard against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. But what, exactly, is an EM...

Secret medieval tunnels have been accidentally unearthed in Wales by electrical workers digging a hole in a customer's back yard.

A European spacecraft is unraveling the secrets of the weird long cloud that has been appearing again and again in the Martian sky for year...

The historic shot was administered to New York nurse Sandra Lindsay on Dec. 14.

Two of the world's most powerful spacefaring nations are teaming up for their most ambitious project yet: a Chinese-Russian research station...

A mass grave in Croatia holds dozens of skeletons, and genetic information reveals new clues about how they died.

Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered nearly two dozen gold foil figures from 1,300 years ago that have engravings of couples embracing e...