Iceland is one of the most active volcanic regions in the world, but its seismic nature is part of a much broader geological ...

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For years, astronomers puzzled over the mystery of where the heaviest elements in the universe—like gold, uranium, and platinum—come from. Scientists understood that these elements had to form under ...

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Scientists have discovered that something is making cosmic distance markers appear much farther away than they should be.

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...

"The extraordinary results are an essential step toward understanding the initial conditions that lead to the formation of ...

The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a ...

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

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Scientists have discovered that at least seven Earth-sized worlds circle the star TRAPPIST-1, a ultracool dwarf star only about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) from Earth.