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QUICK FACTSName: Sørvágsvatn or LeitisvatnLocation: Vágar, Faroe IslandsCoordinates: 62.0496, -7.2362Why it’s incredible: The lake looks like it’s hanging over the ocean.Sørvágsvatn, also called Leitisvatn, is a…

Astronomers have spotted a colossal explosion coming from a pair of merging neutron stars lurking within the remnants of an ancient galaxy pileup. The unexpected “collision…

For much of the 20th century, artificial intelligence (AI) struggled not because researchers lacked ambition, but because the hardware available to power it simply wasn’t powerful…

Archaeologists in Ukraine have discovered red lumps of cinnabar — a mineral form of the highly toxic chemical mercury sulfide — in a 1,900-year-old double burial…

Astronomers think they’ve glimpsed one of the rarest sights in space: two planets smashing into each other around a distant star.The collision appears to have unfolded…

Archaeologists in southern Italy have uncovered the graves of two children who were buried wearing large bronze belts nearly 2,500 years ago. The metallic accessories are…

Blackwater lakes and rivers in the Congo Basin are releasing ancient carbon into the atmosphere, a new study shows. Previously, scientists thought this carbon was safely…

Researchers have developed a technology to invisibly transmit information disguised as background thermal radiation. Using a phenomenon called “negative light,” they transferred 100 kilobits of data…

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is up to 12 billion years old and unlike anything found in our solar system, new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations suggest.Comet…

A Chinese company successfully flew a 5-ton (4,536-kilogram) electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) in a new feat for electric aircraft. Its makers at Fengfei…