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A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.

At least six pet cats in Los Angeles County have died from bird flu, and more are sick with the virus, after consuming either ...

Hours after Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin nailed its first-ever orbital mission, SpaceX seized back the spotlight on Thursday as ...

Genes play a role in our likelihood of developing depression, and one of the most extensive studies of its kind has now been ...

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our Moon.

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age ...

Thousands of years ago, people on what is now the Danish island of Bornholm threw hundreds of mysteriously carved stones into ...

Evidence for the positive effects of intermittent fasting continues to mount: a new study shows that for people with obesity, ...

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