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Scientists may have finally pinned down the nature of some of the most baffling objects in the night sky.In a new study, researchers investigated the identity…

Stunned astronomers have discovered a zombie star relatively near Earth that is inexplicably emitting a persistent, rainbow-like shock wave as it speeds through the Milky Way.…

New observations of a strange galaxy show it was slowly starved to death by its own black hole.Two telescopes peered deep into space at the galaxy…

Engineers from MIT say that stacking circuit components on top of each other could be the answer to creating more energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) chips. The…

The patient: A 25-year-old man in GermanyThe symptoms: The man was on a ski trip in November 2008 when an avalanche knocked him unconscious and left…

What if some of the alien worlds we’ve discovered are not actually planets at all?Astronomers have spent years cataloging thousands of worlds orbiting distant stars, assuming…

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world’s most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than 2 million years ago in northern Kenya. The…

One of the largest searches for alien intelligence in history is nearing completion, thanks to the help of more than 2 million citizen scientists and the…

NASA is on track to send humans around the moon as early as Feb. 6 as it makes final preparations for the imminent rollout of its…

The world’s formerly largest iceberg, A23a, has been transformed into a beautiful blob of stripy “blue mush,” signaling its imminent demise, new satellite photos reveal. The…