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In a groundbreaking discovery published in The Planetary Science Journal, a team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has confirmed the existence of a rare object located far beyond Neptune. Known as 2020…

Imagine an ant crawling in sand, tracing a path that happens to look like Winston Churchill. Would you say the ant created an image of the former British prime minister? According to the late Harvard philosopher Hilary Putnam most people would…

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A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth has sold for a hammer price of $4.3 million to an anonymous bidder at a Sotheby’s New York auction…

I’m sitting with my back straight, my eyes closed and my iPad resting on my lap. “Let one hand float up in the air as if it were a balloon,” a soothing voice tells me from the speakers, and I do as it commands. Soon I feel as if my whole body is…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar…

Where did Europe’s distinct Uralic family of languages — which includes Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian — come from? New research puts their origins a lot farther east than many thought.

The analysis, led by a pair of recent graduates…

On July 15, a colossal filament erupted from the sun’s northeastern limb, dramatically reshaping part of our star’s surface, albeit briefly, and unleashing a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space.

The outburst was so powerful that it carved a…

In a groundbreaking study, physicists have developed a new method for detecting dark matter, an invisible substance believed to account for around 80% of the universe’s mass. Using thorium-229, a radioactive element, this method utilizes the…

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object…