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Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time.

A helmet up for auction in London is a well-preserved example of the "Corinthian" helmets used by many hoplite warriors.

How does creeping stress ignite a cataclysmic earthquake? A new study has answers.

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a degenerative brain disease linked to repetitive head trauma. Here's how it affects the brain and who is most at risk.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Australia.

"Recycling" an already transplanted organ could help save lives, but the procedure comes with additional risks, physicians say.

There's an idea that larger muscles burn a lot more energy while at rest. But is that true?

Research suggests that alcohol causes cancer through at least five different mechanisms.

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud.

Common degus clean themselves and communicate with urine, and they can detach their own tails to escape predators.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Researchers discovered long-lost computer code and used it to resurrect the early chatbot ELIZA.

Science news this week Jan. 18, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

A doorbell camera recorded a rare video of the moment a meteorite fell outside a home.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..

Parents are more likely to favor daughters and more-agreeable children, new research suggests, although the findings may only apply to people from certain demographics.

The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds.

Debris from the rocket's explosion was caught on camera by a family vacationing on Grand Turk island.