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Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory has combined different wavelength images of the Andromeda galaxy to honor astronomer Vera Rubin, and then created a music video by converting the light in those images to ...

Footage captures a pair of orcas nibbling each other's tongues in the Kvænangen fjords in northern Norway. Scientists think this rarely seen behavior could play a role in social bonding.

The founders of the Microbiota Vault, a project that aims to preserve microbial diversity, have announced that they are ready ...

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A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

Excavations in Egypt's Nile Delta have revealed ancient Egyptian multistory "tower" houses, a ceremonial building dedicated ...