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Astronomers have discovered a star "with a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere" 150 light-years from Earth that they believe could be two white dwarfs that merged together.

A 76-year-old man in Scotland discovered a message in a bottle that netted him $1,000 after an editor of a New York-based magazine dropped the bottle into the Atlantic Ocean over a year ago.

A pair of 99-million-year-old cockroaches are rewriting the early history of the underworld.

Twitter has mandated that all of its employees in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea work from home due to the coronavirus-- which has killed over 3,000 people globally-- "due in part to government restrictions," in those countries the company said on Monday. 

Archaeologists released a gorgeous image showing a digital reconstruction of a colorful leopard's face that once adorned an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus.

Two new ancient species of cockroach have been found, perfectly preserved in amber, in a cave in Myanmar.

In its early years, Earth may have looked like a post-apocalyptic waterworld, according to a new study.

Almost half of the world's sandy beaches could be gone by 2100 if climate change continues as is, according to a new study published on Monday.

Scientists say they have discovered the first known protein that originated in space, located in a meteorite that fell to Earth 30 years ago.

In an effort to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has affected more than 80,000 and killed more than 3,000 people in China, the country shuttered factories and quarantined many of its citizens. However, as the country's factories slowly return online from the aftermath, there has been one unexpected side effect to the decline in economic activity. Pollution has vanished.

An astronomy student from the University of British Columbia has discovered 17 new exoplanets, including one that is roughly the same size as Earth.

How did the planets in the solar system come to be?

On April 25, 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster befell the Chernobyl, Ukraine Power Plant. However, unlike the 2011 Fukushima, Japan nuclear crisis, the Chernobyl reactor explosion was caused by human error instead of a natural disaster.

A newfound species of parasitic worm wiggles its way into the brains of baby lizards long before the reptiles hatch. 

The Small Animal Specialist Hospital (SASH) in Sydney, Australia helped to solve what they called the case of "The Missing Beach Towel" this week when they pulled an entire multi-colored, fruit-themed beach towel from the belly of a family's pet python. 

The coronavirus is coinciding with "significant decreases" in nitrogen dioxide over China, according to NASA, as authorities there continue to place more people under quarantines and some businesses remain closed amid the outbreak.

An Antarctic island that was once hidden has been uncovered after melting glaciers caused by high temperatures revealed its shore.

Archaeologists made a stunning discovery in Germany -- finding a 2,000-year-old silver dagger in the grave of a Roman soldier.

Amelia Earhart's Lockheed 5B plane is on display at the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

A recently discovered exoplanet is "potentially habitable," according to a newly published study.