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The dwarf planet’s mountains, glaciers, and atmosphere can’t be fully explained, says the first scientific paper from New Horizons probe researchers. → Read More
The dwarf planet’s mountains, glaciers, and atmosphere can’t be fully explained, says the first scientific paper from New Horizons probe researchers. → Read More
The cosmic visitor owes its bizarre shape to a collision that welded two smaller objects together 4.6 billion years ago. → Read More
It’s no surprise that Californians are in danger, but scientists have also flagged residents of Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Illinois and South Carolina. → Read More
The Philae probe, which bounce-landed on a comet last year, has phoned home its findings. → Read More
A new study makes the case for building a supersize space telescope that would create images five times sharper than Hubble's. → Read More
Mysterious pits on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko may have formed when the ground beneath them collapsed, say Rosetta mission scientists. → Read More
Analysis of the jawbone of a man who lived about 40,000 years ago reveals the closest direct descendant of a Neanderthal who mated with a modern human. → Read More
New research shows that our closest evolutionary relatives have all of the cognitive capacities required for cooking—except an understanding of how to control fire. → Read More
A gigantic quasar creates a beacon that can be seen across the cosmos. → Read More
The massive shelves of ice that ring Antarctica have been shrinking, leaving glaciers on the move. → Read More
In a warming world, the black-legged tick (a.k.a. deer tick) is peaking in mid-May instead of June. → Read More
It gets stranger: the four quasars are nestled in a gigantic cloud of cold hydrogen gas that theories say shouldn’t exist either. → Read More
The star cluster, only 15 percent the size of the Milky Way, dates to just 670 million years after the big bang—not long after the first stars turned on. → Read More
Wild temperature swings on a distant exoplanet called 55 Cancri e could be evidence of gigantic eruptions on a super-Earth. → Read More
Deep ocean inlets account for about 11 percent of the carbon locked away in marine sediments each year. → Read More
An unidentified blast of powerful X-rays suggests something violent is happening at the core of the galaxy—but astronomers aren't sure what it is. → Read More
A newly discovered dinosaur from South America doesn’t fit easily into any known category. → Read More
A new study says waning Arctic sea ice could lead to algae blooms that will trap extra heat from the Sun → Read More
About 18 percent of heavy precipitation events worldwide and 75 percent of hot temperature extremes can already be attributed to human activity, says a new study. → Read More