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A big NASA satellite will crash back to Earth on Tuesday (March 10) after nearly 14 years in orbit, experts say.

The spacecraft in question is the 1,323-pound (600-kilogram) Van Allen Probe A, which launched in August 2012 along with its twin,…

The Yonaguni Monument, located off the coast of Yonaguni Island in Japan, has long been a subject of debate and intrigue. First discovered by diver Kihachiro Aratake in 1986, the submerged rock formations bear a striking resemblance to…

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles” — the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1.

And in a new development, it turns out these mathematical…

An intriguing coin deposited into a bus driver’s till in England in the 1950s turned out to have ancient origins: It was minted 2,000 years ago in what is now southern Spain. Now, more than 70 years later, the grandson of the former transport…

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• A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five…

Long-lost page of Archimedes’ writings rediscovered in France

Thunderstorms belong to a non-exhaustive list of surprisingly mundane things that we know surprisingly little about. Last year, a team of engineers identified how lightning forms on cloud tops. The same team is now back with…

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. The objective was to assess whether humanity could protect Earth from cosmic threats, such as…

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• A study shows evidence of Neanderthal “fat factories” dating back as far as 125,000 years ago.

• The study found inhabitants of the settlement strategically selected the lakeside location for…