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Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to…

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech…

A rare and bewildering intermediate between crystal and glass can be the most stable arrangement for some combinations of atoms,…

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, shifting tectonic plates — these are all signs that our planet is alive. But what is revealed…

Making a discovery with the potential for innovative applications in pharmaceutical development, a West Virginia University microbiology student has found…

Astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in collaboration with international teams, have made a startling discovery…

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs — some of the most famous in North America — have just been formally…

Courtesy of Chandler PlanteCourtesy of Chandler Plante “You have retrobulbar abscess/cellulitis. That's a true emergency,” an internet stranger recently commented…

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space…

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