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In the deserts of Africa and the Middle East, scientists have uncovered unusual tiny tubes embedded in rocks, which they suspect were created by some form of life. These strange micro-burrows, found in places like Namibia, Saudi Arabia, and…

For more than a decade, Vesta has sat in a scientific gray zone: too big and geologically complex to be an ordinary asteroid, yet never quite elevated to the status of a true planet.

Its basalt-covered surface hinted at a molten past, and early…

Why do we feel an instant attraction to some people and not to others? Research suggests that it takes less than one second from meeting a person to decide how much we like that person and whether we’re attracted to them or not. That may sound…

Mammals range from tiny creatures that last just a few years to whales that sail through life for more than a century, raising questions about how aging shapes such differences and what forces keep some animals healthy for so long.

Experts have…

This time, the focus is on the remains of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

Using high-resolution images captured by Hubble, combined with data from other telescopes like NASA’s…

Declassified images from U.S. military satellites are helping find forgotten mine fields in Cambodia.

From the late 1960s almost until the end of the 1990s, a bloody war between communist groups and democracy defenders raged, with a few short…

Just two weeks after the Lyrids meteor shower, stargazers should get ready to see the peak of the Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which is expected to light up the sky the night of Monday, May 5, and the early morning of Tuesday, May 6. For anyone in…

Imagine a world where all the land ice on Earth melts. It might sound like a scenario for a science fiction movie, but the possibility is becoming increasingly real due to the impacts of climate change. In a recent video by Business Insider…

What just happened? For decades, scientists have puzzled over the origin of water on the Moon, a resource that could prove vital for future lunar exploration. Since the 1960s, a leading hypothesis has suggested that the Sun itself might be…