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More than 200 million years ago, a massive extinction decimated 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species, marking ...

Distant, dust-filled galaxies were bursting with newborn stars much earlier in cosmic history than previously thought, according to ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), in collaboration with its Canada and Taiwan partners, Japan, Europe and Chile, ...

In the movie Alien, the title character is an extraterrestrial creature that can survive brutal heat and resist ...

A century after Western explorers first crossed the dangerous landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers have deployed ...

A network of U.S. seismographic stations recorded spectacular signals from the blast waves of the Chelyabinsk meteor that ...