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A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that may have sparked...

A historic winter snowstorm has reached the Gulf Coast, smothering the region in Arctic air and dropping record-breaking amounts of snow on...

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.

A man was diagnosed with skeletal fluorosis, which likely emerged due to him inhaling substances that damaged his bones.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde after acing its 11...

"As yet, nobody has managed to understand what gives rise to this strange phenomenon, and explaining dark energy remains one of the most for...

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A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the "artificial sun," has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer to near-limitles...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the s...

A Roman-era cemetery, found ahead of a construction project in England, holds an unusual burial at its center.

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" that splits the...

Researchers unveiled a super-strong nanoscale material made from the first two-dimensional mechanically interlocked polymers. The material r...

The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third exascale compute...

Newly described scorpion can spray and inject its venom — the first South American species known to do this.

How's your knowledge of Earth's geology? Flat, round or global?

A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj volcanic field inters...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk tur...

There are many megaliths around the world, some of which rival Stonehenge for their size and age.

A large new study has shed light on the wider health impacts of taking Ozempic-style drugs.

People often go to the bathroom in groups, and according to new research chimpanzees do the same, possibly to strengthen group social bonds.

A little penguin colony in Australia struggles during years with high penguin divorce rates, but the divorcees could have more offspring in...

USGS researchers have unveiled the first map of prospective locations for hydrogen gas in the contiguous United States — and there's a lot m...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — o...

A lavish 9,000-year-old grave in central Germany revealed the burial of a powerful female shaman.

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