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This Exoplanet Smells Like Rotten Eggs and Deep Space Mystery
Around a small, glowing red star some 35 light-years away from our own familiar neighborhood,…
Astronomers Discover an Ancient Rocky World Where a Year Lasts Only Four Days
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Meet the 15 Foot Armored Titan That Hunted Our Famous Ancestor Lucy
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This Prehistoric Monkey Traded Fruit for Salad and Changed Evolution Forever
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Scientists Discover a 5-Ton Giant That Predates T. Rex by Millions of Years
Deep in the arid, sun-scorched stretches of the San Juan Basin in New Mexico, the…
Scientists Discovered a Spinning Stellar Corpse Weaving Giant Spirals in Deep Space
Deep within the constellation of Vela, about 1,000 light years away from Earth, lies a…
Astronomers Discovered an Impossible Frost Hidden Within a Dying Star
Deep in the heart of the constellation Scorpius, approximately 3,400 light years from Earth, a…
Ancient Egyptians Used Broken Pottery as Their Version of Scratch Paper and the Results Are Incredible
The sun beats down on the landscape ten kilometers west of the Nile, illuminating a…
New Forensic Tools Are Decoding the Violent Secrets Hidden in 3000 Year Old Bones
For as long as humans have lived, we have left behind stories etched into our…
This Light Started Its Journey to Earth When the T-Rex Was Still Alive
Across the vast, silent stretches of the cosmos, a message has been traveling toward Earth…
This Newly Discovered Earth Sized World Is Braving a 2 Billion Year Gauntlet of Fire
The cosmos is a crowded place, teeming with billions of stars, but the most common…
Two Black Holes Just Collided and Did the One Thing Scientists Thought Was Impossible
Deep in the silent expanse of the cosmos, the universe recently whispered a secret that…
Astronomers Watched a Real-Life Planetary Smash-Up 11,000 Light-Years Away
For years, the star known as Gaia20ehk was, by all accounts, unremarkable. Located roughly 11,000…
Scientists Finally Found the Hidden Engine Buried Inside the Universe’s Brightest Explosions
The universe has a way of hiding its most powerful engines behind curtains of fire.…
Ancient Artists Left a Secret Ingredient in These Cave Paintings That Just Solved a 15,000 Year Mystery
Deep within the sun-dappled valley of Les Eyzies in southwestern France, the limestone cliffs of…
This 2000 Year Old Skeleton From the Philippines Reveals a Heartbreaking Secret About Ancient Survival
The humid air of the Cagayan Valley in the northern Philippines has long held the…
Astronomers Just Discovered a Crowded Solar System Hiding Only 10 Light Years Away
The universe often feels like a vast, empty void, but every so often, astronomers pull…
A Violent Flash 8 Billion Light Years Away Just Revealed the Cosmic Origin of Your Gold Jewelry
High above our atmosphere, the Fermi satellite maintains a silent watch over the cosmos, waiting…
This Atomic Lasagna Could Be the Secret to Building the Next Generation of Supercomputers
The race to build the next generation of supercomputers and smartphones has hit a microscopic…
Scientists Finally Found the Missing Link That Explains How Fish Evolved Into Humans
Beneath the rolling hills of southern China, locked within layers of ancient sediment, lay a…
This Poodle Sized Ancient Crocodile Relative Grew Out of Its Four Legged Childhood
Imagine a world before the dawn of the great dinosaurs, a landscape of lush evergreen…