The weather on Earth can get pretty messy sometimes. But in space, it can be wild—and the effects can be far-reaching. Solar ...

A giant scorpion that once roamed what is now England and Wales has been confirmed as the largest of its kind ever to exist, ...

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Scientists say that they’ve just detected a massive cloud of gas some 3 billion lightyears in diameter, floating in space ...

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world, possibly as big as the moon or even Mars, orbited our sun before crashing ...

Do you occasionally hear a low buzzing or humming sound that doesn’t have a clear source? Then you’re among the estimated 2-4 ...

Stanford scientists have discovered a new type of immune cell that kills surrounding cells via explosion – a cellular ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been guided by one hopeful assumption: somewhere in the galaxy, ...

The International Space Station has been home to humans for over 25 years. And over the decades, those humans have helped ...

When it comes to sex, banana slugs take things slow. But slow doesn’t mean boring. Banana slug mating involves swapping slime ...