Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

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We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to ...

A new National Academies report recommends ways for the U.S. to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence in biotechnology ...

The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

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Astronomers from the University of Arizona have uncovered astonishing details about a galaxy that existed when the universe ...