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For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond the Solar System's borders.

A German woman engineer on Saturday became the first wheelchair user to blast into space, taking a brief ride on a Blue Origin flight.

No sea creature inspires terror - rightly or wrongly - as much as the white shark does.

The murdered MIT professor, Nuno Loureiro, was leading a potentially world-changing effort to upend the fossil fuel industry when we was fatally shot Monday.

Our pets can now live much longer lives, yet they face an increased risk of cognitive decline similar to human dementia as they grow older.

Editorial: Cutting-edge therapies exist, but the market cannot deliver them cheaply. Britain must build NHS capacity so that cures become collective goods, not expensive products ...

The team even extracted DNA from a tiny 100-year-old butterfly leg.

Researchers studying a massive landslide in Alaska have detected strange seasonal seismic pulses caused by water freezing and thawing in rock cracks. These faint signals could become an important early clue to changes that might someday trigger a ...

A major international review has upended long-held ideas about how top performers are made. By analyzing nearly 35,000 elite achievers across science, music, chess, and sports, researchers found that early stars rarely become adult superstars. Most . ...

Blue crabs burrow, wood frogs freeze, and other cold weather survival strategies.