About 400 million years ago, vertebrates first began to crawl from the primordial seas onto…
Ashfall from ancient volcanic explosions is the likely source of a strange mineral deposit near…
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Computer simulations provide compelling evidence that an insulating layer of gas hydrates could keep a…
NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection beyond our world of an…
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A neutron star merger without an observed gamma-ray burst has been discovered using NASA’s Chandra…
Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that is transforming scientific inquiry and industry,…
The irregular galaxy NGC 4485 shows all the signs of having been involved in a…
Our Milky Way galaxy has probably collided or otherwise interacted with other galaxies during its…
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NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever…
Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed…
According to researchers at Yale Cancer Center, a cancer drug thought to be of limited…
The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, getting more than about 150 feet (50…
NGC 3384, visible in this image, has many of the features characteristic of so-called elliptical…
Gravitational waves, first detected in 2016, offer a new window into the universe, with the…
The best hope for people with an inherited form of kidney disease that causes kidney…