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The recent auction of a Martian meteorite – for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York – has sparked questions over its provenance and renewed debate over who gets to claim rocks fallen ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest, most distant black hole yet – and it's surprisingly monstrous for its time.

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By analyzing 18 years of high-frequency laser measurements from the Ekofisk oil platform in the central North Sea, we reached ...

A recent discovery by a team of astronomers centres on a galaxy cluster called CHIPS 1911+4455, located an incredible 6 ...

A nuclear power plant in northern France hit by a jellyfish invasion was getting back online on Wednesday, operator EDF said, ...