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Recently discovered Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) will make its closest approach to the sun and Earth in late April and could potentially be visible to the naked eye. It may end up being the brightest comet of the year.

Stone Age people in Macedonia created goddess figurines whose bottom half was a house.

A burial mound in Turkey may have held the remains of a member of King Midas's family. But not all experts are convinced.

A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.

The oldest river predates the dinosaurs. But how do we know this?

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this is a newly found type of star-forming galaxy.

Archaeologists in Sicily found a unique writing implement featuring a grumpy-faced god and his erect penis.

The hydrochloric acid in your stomach can burn through metal — so why doesn't it burn through your stomach?

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion milestone and potentially bringing humanity closer to wielding near-limitless clean energy.

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago.

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar flares, including a hidden X-class outburst, a new paper reveals. The study sets a record for the longest continuous observation of a single active region on our home star.