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A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tonnes of gas and dust a second -- an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said.

Astronomers found that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS shows an "extreme abundance ratio" of nickel and iron in its gas plume.

What looks like ordinary mold could transform biomedical science. Researchers at the University of Utah have found that a common soil mold, Marquandomyces marquandii, may be the foundation for future ...

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have separated after nearly 20 years of marriage, and the actress is reportedly struggling with the split.

That kind of system could help reduce the temptation to sell to the highest bidder. Local communities can benefit. In certain parts of the world, fossil collecting is a livelihood. Families in regions ...

Just as Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick was saying that the government should seize 50% of academic royalties resulting from licensing federally funded inventions because otherwise the feds get ...

For years, scientists staring at Mars through the eyes of orbiting spacecraft noticed something strange: a mysterious signal in the light spectrum that didn’t match any known mineral. That puzzling ...

Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. AI-generated illustration. For fifty years, a small stone sat on display in a German museum. Catalogued in the 1970s as a simple “oil lamp” from the end of the Ice Age, ...

The conservationist, who died yesterday, led a 65-year fight to raise eco awareness. In one of her final interviews, she explained why her mission never faltered ...

Jane Goodall, the world-famous primatologist, activist and environmentalist whose discoveries about chimpanzees forever changed what it means to be human, has died at 91.