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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre-looking exoplanet that defies explanation ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

A long-standing physics mystery has been solved with the discovery of emergent photon-like behavior inside a strange quantum ...

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A hot knife tested on some really unusual objects. Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado ...

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed ...

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Astronomers call them LFBOTs—rare and powerful bursts of blue light that shine across billions of light-years and then vanish ...

Astronomers said planet PSR J2322-2650b appears to have an exotic helium-and-carbon-dominated atmosphere unlike any ever seen ...