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Scientists have been vollying the question back and forth for more than a century.

A new theory explains how dozens of mysterious planet pairs discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, dubbed "JuMBOs," may have formed.

Human bones discovered in a house that burned down 5,700 years ago are providing archaeologists "CSI"-style clues about the deaths of seven people in prehistoric Ukraine.

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a new theory suggests.

"Both understood phages as medicinal agents, which the rest of the medical field viewed as nonsensical."

A new mRNA therapy tested in mice may target the root cause of the potentially fatal pregnancy disorder preeclampsia.

With wheels and a choice of two legs or four, the DEEP Robotics Lynx is capable of traversing tough terrain.

By searching sparsely populated regions of the galaxy, astronomers have for the first time found the source of a kind of signal that has puzzled them for years.

The patient was diagnosed with takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as "broken heart syndrome," which had an unusual cause.

Earth from space This 2012 satellite photo shows a series of giant windblown ridges, known as yardangs, and a group of towering sand dunes at the heart of Iran's Lut Desert.

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.