“Third, as an unexpected bonus, it turns out that both galaxy nuclei also have an active supermassive black hole. So, this ...

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E xcavations at a 2,000-year-old settlement in Spain have yielded the first ever trilobite fossil from Roman times. Found in ...

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I n Yellowstone National Park, a hydrothermal explosion has formed a new hole, filled with chalk blue water that’s hotter ...

I n 2016, a lightning storm rolled across the Hardangervidda plateau in Norway. When the skies cleared, wildlife officials ...

The researchers hypothesize that pigeons encounter discarded hairs and artificial threads, perhaps when collecting nesting ...

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“The flight was extremely normal for the first 36 seconds, and after that it got very interesting," Conrad recalled in the ...

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf planet, named Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea, was found over 12.9 ...

According to the team's measurements, the comet's nucleus is around a whopping 128 kilometers (80 miles) across, making it bigger than the state of Rhode Island, and far larger than its closest ...