There are many kinds of stars out there in the big, wide Universe. We have a whole system for categorizing...
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When it comes to getting rid of an annoying pest, sometimes subtlety just won’t cut it. Sometimes you just have...
Snakes living in the Fukushima Exclusion Zone can be used to track radioactive contamination, scientists have learnt. Ten years after...
When we search for life out there in the galaxy, we base our efforts on what we know. So far,...
After taking new radio observations, astronomers have ruled out a leading explanation for the cyclic nature of a particularly curious...
A powerful radio telescope staring at a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way has detected thousands of hitherto unknown radio...
A newborn star system 1,400 light-years from Earth is revealed in all its dynamic glory in a new photo from...
Saturn – or Kronos – may be the one with a horrifying reputation for filial cannibalism in mythology, but when it...
When it comes to birds, sexual dimorphism can be very pronounced indeed. Males may announce their presence with flashy feathers,...
The bones of victims of the 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius in the nearby town of Herculaneum have revealed fascinating...
A newly discovered asteroid has the second-shortest orbit that we know in the entire Solar System, pipped only by Mercury....
Supermassive black holes tend to sit, more or less stationary, at the centers of galaxies. But not all of these...