This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star. (Image credit: NASA, ESA,…

​​Rivers may seem as old as the hills, but they have life cycles just like other natural features do. Many…

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, removed two of its historic test stands – the Propulsion and Structural…

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A new category of space objects dubbed “platypus galaxies” is defying explanation.These nine strange cosmic objects, spotted in archival data…

This week’s science news was all about discoveries made by the world’s best telescopes, as the James Webb Space Telescope…

Archaeologists in southern Sicily have uncovered an ancient bone tool depicting the god Dionysus and his erect phallus. The exquisite…

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