If a huge asteroid smashes into the Moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming towards Earth that would ...

Ancient seas left an expanse of rolling gypsum dunes known as White Sands in New Mexico, and within this surreal landscape ...

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The smarter you are, the more your brain is in sync with its own secret rhythm, a new study has found.

A dozen volunteers with severe type 1 diabetes showed clear improvements in their condition 12 months after receiving a ...

The observatory telescope is embarking on a 10-year survey of the southern sky called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time ...

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A French woman from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has been identified as the only known carrier of a new blood type, ...

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks.