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A new study using data from China's Chang'e-4 moon lander found an area of reduced radiation from cosmic rays near the moon.

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Astronomers have detected small, ruby-like crystals embedded in Martian rocks, which may also hide sapphires created in the ...

Two lavish Iron Age hoards unearthed in England may have been burned in honor of a queen's royal ancestor, a new study finds ...

Modular robots are easily expandable, know when they're upside down or stuck, and can march forward across all kinds of ...

Using a new method, physicists found a way to 'catapult' electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second.

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Archaeologists have unearthed an intact bronze cannonball used at the Battle of the Alamo. They made the discovery one day ...