Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

One of the greatest mysteries of our planet is how a soup of lifeless chemicals transformed into the first living cell. There are several competing theories about where this happened, from frozen ...

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt—and it was hidden in plain sight.

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...

The latest round of strategic seed funding is propelling innovations in imaging, brain health, autoimmune therapies, and more ...

People in poor countries often get little or no warning about floods, storms and other deadly weather. Local efforts are changing that, and saving lives.

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Ryan Gosling’s characters have taken him to many different places over the years — his Oscar-nominated roles alone have seen ...

Hidden beneath an ancient temple in Assur, Iraq, archaeologists have discovered key evidence of the Cult of Ishtar's origins.

World skiing's governing body has moved swiftly to quash talk of ski jumpers injecting their penises with paraffin or ...