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A team of international researchers discovered two new "super-Earth" planets. Both planets are larger than Earth and are less than 100 light years away. And one of them may even be suitable for life.[...]

Scientists discovered an undersea crater, running 248 miles off the coast of West Africa. The huge undersea structure is believed to have been formed by an asteroid that slammed into the earth during the age of dinosaurs....

Disaster warning messages have emerged on river beds in parts of Europe. The continent faces a historic drought that has led to serious drops in major rivers. On most river beds, centuries-old cravings are chiseled in the...

A fabulous 170-carat pink diamond discovered in Angola, Africa has been dubbed the “Lulo Rose.” It’s the largest pink diamond found in 300 years.[...]

Scientists are still trying to figure out how a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite rock found itself in the Sahara desert. The rock was discovered in May 2020 in the middle of the Sahara in Adar Algeria. Since its finding, the...

While enjoying an evening walk at Douglas Lake in East Tennessee, 11-year-old Ryleigh Taylor stumbled upon a magnificent discovery: the 475-million-year-old fossilized remains of an ancient sea creature called a trilobite...

For the first time, researchers have identified the presence of helium within the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, offering yet another glimpse into the weather patterns of exoplanets...

Just when you thought we knew all there was to know about the human body, researchers revealed that they discovered an entirely new human organ. Called the interstitium, it consists of a series of fluid-filled, shock-absorbing...

Geologists in Queensland, Australia have discovered a unique type of bacteria that forges small bits of gold into solid nuggets. The discovery could allow mining companies to reprocess previously undesirable gold into market-ready...

Scientists at the University of Illinois have constructed a new theory on how the hotspot beneath Yellowstone National Park's supervolcano gets its heat. "A robust result from these models is that the heat source behind...

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have observed "double whirlpools" in the natural world for the first time. Until now, the unusual fluid dynamics phenomenon had only been theoretically envisioned. While eddies, whirlpools...

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have learned that cosmic rays emitted when stars explode have a measurable impact on weather patterns on Earth...

A carnivorous marsupial thought to be extinct for a century has been found alive in the Australian state of New South Wales. The crest-tailed mulgara, one of two mulgara species, is known to have endured in the arid region...

A recently identified 512-year-old Greenland shark may be the world's oldest living vertebrate. Although scientists discovered the 18-foot fish in the North Atlantic months ago, its age was only recently revealed in a study...

Physicists at the University of Illinois recently announced they have discovered a new form of matter known as excitonium. Although theorized more than half a century ago, excitonium was only recently confirmed in experiments...