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Inside an incredibly bright cluster of galaxies, a long-dormant supermassive black hole has come back to life. Radio images ...

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Using the space telescope, a team of astronomers has detected with unprecedented precision two tails of helium escaping from ...

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“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...