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The Atacama Desert, the driest and oldest desert on Earth, located in northern Chile, hides a hyper-arid core in which no rain has been...

In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as 'Oumuamua—the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system....

A survey of ice in Greenland has uncovered evidence suggesting a kilometer-wide iron asteroid slammed into that island, perhaps as recently as 12,000 years...

Rice University scientists have built a better epoxy for electronic applications. Epoxy combined with "ultrastiff" graphene foam invented in the Rice lab of chemist James...

The African elephantnose fish generates weak electrical pulses to navigate its environment. This localization sense apparently shows an astonishing similarity to vision, as a...

We know less about the ground beneath our feet than we do about the surface of Mars, but new research by University of Colorado...

Astronomers have discovered a planet in orbit around one of the closest stars to the Sun, Barnard's star. The study was co-led by researchers from...

In the Standard Model of particle physics, there is almost no difference between matter and antimatter. But there is an abundance of evidence that...

During the late Cretaceous period, more than 65 million years ago, birds belonging to hundreds of different species flitted around the dinosaurs and through...

For the first time astronomers have detected gravitational waves from a merged, hyper-massive neutron star. The scientists, Maurice van Putten of Sejong University in...

Scientists have discovered something amazing. In a cluster of some of the most massive and luminous stars in our galaxy, about 5,000 light years from...