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Astronomers have just found one of the youngest planets ever. At only 3 million years old, planet TIDYE-1b (also known as ...

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Last month, NASA briefly lost Voyager 1 in the expanse of interstellar space, and when the craft reappeared it was ...

In the waters around Antarctica, decades ago, humans heard a strange sound: a repeating noise that sounded like the quacking ...

Parents of very young babies should not feel uncomfortable about asking visitors to avoid kissing or touching their child. If ...

There's value in hitting your deadlines, a new study shows: work submitted late is often thought to be of lower quality, even ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

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For the first time, physicists have transformed a quantum processor into a state of matter that seems to defy physics, a ...

A rare and potentially fatal skin infection with nightmarish outcomes may soon have a cure.