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The rings of Uranus were only discovered in 1977 and the outer rings, named for the Greek letters μ and ν (mu and nu), have ...

New modeling suggests a global threshold may have been crossed in 2024, though its significance varies enormously by region.

This is an enormous number of possible worlds. Of them, 411 were seen only in a single transit in front of their star, so the ...

Across the pond, the oldest river in Europe is thought to be the Meuse, which flows 950 kilometers (590 miles) through three ...

Work out the math on that timeline, and you come to an unexpected conclusion: that Cleopatra lived closer to us today than ...

Found just a little over 400 kilometers (250 miles) off the coast of Mozambique, the island of Madagascar is not only the ...

Voted for by the public, the image beat out 40 other images of animals caught just at the right, or wrong moment.

But new research suggests something more fundamental may also be at play: the shape of the human skull itself. The rest of ...

Genetic factors within the host organism, as well as its sex, can strongly impact how a virus evolves while it is infecting ...

Some call it Medusa Lake, but the name isn't really deserved – or at least, it isn't quite accurate.

The water is ultrapure, a crucial requirement to perform the sophisticated work that goes on there. We have come across ...