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Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

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Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

Wikimedia Commons/Mare Island Navy Yard The 1944 Port Chicago Explosion The Navy built Port Chicago Naval Magazine in 1942 to ...

The connection between Superman and Kryptonite is so firmly established in American culture that “Kryptonite” has become ...

Israel and Iran launched a new round of attacks as the conflict between the two heavily armed rivals enters its fifth day.

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Have you ever seen a creature that seems to smile at you from behind the glass, with feathery gills waving like carnival ...