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The same gigantic sunspot that was responsible for triggering a historic geomagnetic storm on Earth in mid-May whipped up a legendary one for Mars a few…
A 16th-century cemetery in Peru holds the remains of two toddlers whose skeletons still show the devastating impact of smallpox in the early-colonial period. The rare…
Name: Qinling panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis)Where it lives: Qinling Mountains in the Shaanxi province, ChinaWhat it eats: BambooWhy it’s awesome: When we think of pandas, we…
Name: Gilgamesh flood tabletWhat it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform…
When you step outside from a dark building into the full glare of the sun, do you suddenly have the urge to sneeze? If so, you’re…
A first-of-its-kind NASA mission aims to put a new “star” in the sky by the end of the decade to help solve a wide range of…
Deep in the outer reaches of the solar system — so far away from the known planets that the sun would barely be distinguishable from a…
Some experts believe that we could be just a few years away from discovering the elusive “Planet Nine” — or ruling out the existence of the…
You might think we know the solar system pretty well, but there’s a lot more to our cosmic neighborhood than initially meets the eye (or telescope). Most…
Astronomers are about to begin making a time lapse of the night sky using the largest digital camera ever constructed. Designed to reveal any new or…