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See the explosive 'devil comet' get its tail ripped off...
A surprise coronal mass ejection recently smashed into Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, briefly causing the "devil comet" to lose its tail —...
Packs of dog-shaped robots could one day roam the moon...
A dog-like, bio-inspired robot called Spirit is still learning to walk, but could one day be deployed on the moon to explore steep,...
East Africa's Lake Nakuru almost doubled in size in 13...
Africa's soda lakes are rising and it's decimating the cyanobacteria flamingos have evolved to eat, putting the species at risk of...
1,700-year-old Roman ruins discovered atop much older Neolithic...
Archaeologists think veneration of the freshwater spring started in Neolithic times.
Future quantum computers could use bizarre 'error-free'...
Qubits can be made by floating a suspended electron over a pool of liquid helium rather than being embedded them a solid-state crystal...
Aliens may be hitching rides on meteors to colonize the...
A fringe theory called "panspermia" suggests that lifeforms can spread to new planets by hitching rides on meteors. New research lays...
April's full 'Pink Moon' blooms amid a meteor shower next...
April's full moon, nicknamed the Pink Moon, rises on Tuesday (April 23), but will appear bright and full on Monday and Wednesday as...
Weird magnetic 'skyrmion' quasiparticle could be used as...
Scientists want to replace electrons with so-called 'nanobubbles' — or skyrmions — to store data more densely and efficiently in advanced...