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Being slightly overweight might not shorten your life, but being very thin might.

In what we can only interpret as a show of solidarity for the Solar System's beleaguered dwarf planet Pluto, the Sun put its heart prominently on its sleeve atmosphere.

The age of exoplanets began in 1992, when astronomers detected a pair of planets orbiting a pulsar.

The world's most popular sport is reckoning with serious health concerns.

Scientists said Wednesday that they had created an AI model able to predict medical diagnoses years in advance, building on the same technology behind consumer chatbots like ChatGPT.

Are those teeth on your forehead or are you just happy to see me? In the curious case of chimaeras, also called ghost sharks, the answer is 'both.' These forehead-teeth are attached to a retractable stalk called a tenaculum, and they help chimaeras . ...

Frozen in time 112 million years ago, an entire ecosystem preserved in amber has been unearthed from a quarry in Ecuador.

From butterflies to grasshoppers, many delicate little things that run our world are in dire trouble.

If you could, would you pay to live forever? Some Silicon Valley billionaires aren't just making tech products - they've set their sights on immortality.

Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists haven't been exactly sure how it works.