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The potentially rocky planet, known as Barnard’s star b, is a “super-Earth” with a mass of at least …

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin’s Marine Science Institute have discovered nearly two dozen new types …

If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that lasers on Earth could, …

Currently, half of the world’s measured annual rain falls in just 12 days, according to a new analysis …

An international research team, including The Australian National University (ANU), has used the Kepler space telescope in coordination …

New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to ancient mammal extinctions in Africa …

University of Sydney astronomers, working with international colleagues, have found a star system like none seen before in …

Slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under the ocean drag about three times more water down into the deep …

Scientists have sequenced 15 ancient DNA genomes spanning from Alaska to Patagonia and were able to track the …

In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as ‘Oumuamua — the first known interstellar …