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A giant object that has been lurking in the relative galactic vicinity of the Solar System this entire time has just been unmasked in all its enormous, invisible glory.

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Although measles poses the greatest immediate threat because of how contagious it is, further drops in vaccination rates ...

You often need a lot of patience to be a scientist, and that's certainly been the case for researchers who have now found ...

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A runaway sausage dog named Valerie has been captured after a 529-day adventure, transfixing Australia as she roamed an ...

The Moon's surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometers across ...

The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research ...