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The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

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New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues to how life developed in our neck of the cosmos, including the sugars ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been a major contributor to space exploration ever since it was delivered into low Earth orbit on April 24, 1990, by NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery. The telescope is a ...

Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded ...

Sofia Alaoui tells us about her enigmatic first feature, in which a pregnant woman’s journey across Morocco becomes a meditation on class, belonging and the mysteries of existence, as strange cosmic ...

This dark discovery is breaking the mold. Scientists have discovered an unlikely ally in the battle to clean up Chernobyl’s radiation zones — the black mold that thrives in them. A research team found ...

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Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time. A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could have ...

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