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A star died in a way that astronomers had long suspected but never seen so clearly. Its remains show two separate layers of debris, the calling card of a double explosion.

The object sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy about…

Scientists in the United Kingdom say they have developed a blood test that can diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) with 96 percent accuracy – the first of its kind.

For many who live with the debilitating…

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Space, it’s full of surprises.

An object, discovered at the beginning of the year, was first thought to be an asteroid. But then it grew a tail.

Astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona found Comet Lemmon…

October is full of astronomical events, with a supermoon and dim meteor recently brightening the skies over Los Angeles. Next week, another is coming: the Orionid meteor shower.

The Orionid shower is made up of particles from Halley’s Comet…

For decades,…

The research team traced a rare Native American founder lineage…

Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton’s third law of motion to do so.

To figure out how they slither through substances that should, in theory, resist their movement, a team led…

Potentially harmful DNA mutations can amass in men’s sperm as they age, new research has found, which may in turn impact the number of mutations passed on to children – and the risks of disease in the next generation.

Mutations occur in DNA…

Scientists have identified a single gene that gives rise to a rare form of diabetes, unique to newborn babies. Mutations of this gene can disable and ultimately kill off insulin-producing cells.

The new discovery reveals that the pancreas’s…