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A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The ...

A mysterious hole the size of Switzerland suddenly appeared in Antarctica’s sea ice, baffling scientists for years. Now, new ...

Astronomers call them LFBOTs—rare and powerful bursts of blue light that shine across billions of light-years and then vanish ...

An artist’s impression depicts the accretion disk surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disk wobbles. In this context, the wobble refers to the orbit of material surrounding the ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

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The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

A new glass sponge species is so strange that has been given the name named Advhena magnifica, which means "magnificent alien ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

The deepest man-made hole on Earth is no longer a gaping wound in the Arctic rock but a quiet, sealed scar. Once hyped as a ...