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A male humpback whale swam 8,106 miles (13,046 km) from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, mingling with other whale populations and potentially having sex with them along the way.

The sword, which has iron rivets in its handle, may be one of the earliest iron artifacts found in Denmark.

A math problem delineating the largest-size sofa that can fit around a corner has finally been solved, though it may not help you move.

A pair of massive thunderstorms have been spotted swirling in Jupiter's "South Equatorial Belt" and are likely unleashing massive bolts of green lightning. Some experts think the pale clouds could end up altering the rusty band's color — and potentially even making it "disappear."

The boggy landscape of the Bering land bridge may have allowed some ice age animals to cross easily, while others stayed in Asia.

A never-before-seen predatory crustacean that feeds on other smaller creatures in the hadal zone was discovered in the Atacama Trench at a depth of 25,900 feet.

Researchers have made significant progress in the quest for scalable and fault-tolerant quantum computers after entangling the most logical qubits on record.

The answer depends on many factors, including the amount of fuel needed, the moon's orbit and the mission's objectives.

The universe is constantly expanding, but how do scientists think about what it's expanding into?

In a new study, the RSV drug nirsevimab was 93% effective at preventing young children from being hospitalized for the respiratory infection.

A small statue of a woman wearing a royal crown may depict Cleopatra VII, an archaeologist claims. Other archaeologists think it is likely someone else.

The research details the elaborate process used to manufacture the Nebra Sky Disc during the Bronze Age.

A new study claims to have identified 13 proteins associated with either accelerated or decelerated brain aging. However, experts have questioned the practical implications of the findings.

Google's new 105-qubit 'Willow' quantum processor has surpassed a key error-correction threshold first proposed in 1995 — with errors now reducing exponentially as you scale up quantum machines.

The sixth-century burial of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl surprised archaeologists when they discovered a small third-century Roman goblet full of pig fat near her head.

A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics.

The Kanlaon volcano in the Philippines erupted today (Dec. 9) at 3:03 p.m. local time, spouting an eruption column of up to 1.86 miles (3 kilometers) into the sky and triggering the evacuation of 87,000 people.

A wood and leather shield dating to around A.D. 250 is one of only a few complete Roman scuta ever found.

A car driving by a raging wildfire in Orange County, California.

The Cold Moon — the 12th and final full moon of 2024 — will rise on Dec. 15 and ascend higher into the night sky than any other, to sit alongside the planet Jupiter.