During a recent lightning storm, a couple from Canada caught a rare weather mystery on camera. Right from their porch, Ed and Melinda Pardy watched as a lightning bolt struck the land less than a ...

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Motes of plastic less than a micrometer across could outnumber larger fragments and particles floating through the oceans to ...

The second half of July and the early days of August are the perfect time to get outside and look at the night sky.

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Your days of being frustrated by a sluggish smartphone or laptop could be coming to an end: scientists have discovered a new ...

The third object known to have entered the Solar System from interstellar space has an origin unlike either of its ...

In a routine blood test that turned extraordinary, French scientists have identified the world's newest and rarest blood ...