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The richest grave in prehistoric Bohemia belonged to a young girl wearing a rare copper neck ring

This possible neutron star is unusually massive, but its nearly circular orbit is the bigger mystery

Astronomers caught a white dwarf star exploding before its supernova reaches peak brightness

JWST captures a giant exoplanet at a wavelength where it had remained invisible

Chemical traces in ancient hair reveal cannabis was used to get high 2,800 years ago

This extinct bird was several times heavier than the megapodes still living on Flores

Scientists cool atoms to a record 9.7 picokelvin aboard China’s space station

Could the universe be 26.7 billion years old? An alternative theory gives early galaxies billions more years to grow

A 1,000-solar-mass black hole may have grown into a giant without building a galaxy around it

Seven massive star clusters hold at least 80% of a galaxy from the universe’s first 400 million years

Shipwreck survivors may have built a temporary camp on a remote Argentine island in 1873

A gamma-ray burst faded, then its X-ray afterglow suddenly brightened weeks later

Hidden behind Galactic dust, Garro 04 emerges as a 10,000-light-year-distant cluster with shared motion, chemistry and a disk-like orbit

Earth may have kept its oceans and mild climate for billions of years without life

The stars’ 20-day rotation masquerades as planet-like signals in a nearby binary system

Hidden Milky Way star cluster may be 13.4 billion years old, nearly as old as the universe

Betelgeuse grows more oval as its companion star moves through its atmosphere

A rare Celtic warrior helmet was deliberately smashed and buried 2,400 years ago in Poland

In ancient Colombia, dying marine lineages shared the seas with evolutionary newcomers

Snow and ice give northern lakes a stronger cooling effect than nearby land

This 125-million-year-old dinosaur may have grown twice as large as the fossil found in England

Water warming makes young North Pacific water older while old tropical water gets younger

Black holes keep pace with their galaxies even when the galaxies have no bulge

This 105-million-year-old bird bone reveals an unusual leg built with two distinctive crests

New fossil jaws reveal unexpected variation in a 2-million-year-old human relative

500 chemicals with breast cancer relevance are found in consumer products, food and water

Earth appears to have grown mostly from pebble-built bodies, while Mars got most of its mass from planetesimals

The brain’s memory waves can spiral, ripple outward or converge inward

The bones of a 57-centimeter dinosaur preserve a different path to flight

Sick elephants on Mount Elgon reportedly target specific plants, while mothers mix some with milk for their calves