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China’s Chang’e 4 lunar probe has captured a stunning panoramic picture of the far side of the Moon.

It's common knowledge that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci 's most famous painting seems to look back at observers, following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the room.

Astronomers have just discovered a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its core, and it's located over 12.8 billion light-years away from Earth, just a billion years shy of the Big Bang.

A Neolithic circle of standing stones was recently "discovered" by archaeologists in Scotland.

A new virus similar to Ebola has been discovered in China, according to reports.

A plastic bag was reportedly discovered in the throat of a roughly 17-foot, endangered sei whale that recently washed up on a North Carolina beach. 

New research reveals the U.S. states that experienced the most lightning strikes in 2018 – Florida and Texas are at the top of the list.

Vivid flecks of blue discovered in the teeth of a 1,000-year-old skeleton from the medieval era have given scientists a rare glimpse into an ancient woman's past.

Planet Earth is alive. Deep beneath its skin, its life blood — rivers of molten iron — pulse around its core. And this mobile iron is what generates the magnetic field that causes auroras — and keeps us alive.

The Sun produces 3.86 x 10^26 watts of energy, or 2.86 with 24 zeros at the end, an impossibly large number. But when the Sun dies, it will turn into an enormous crystal ball, according to a new study.

An extremely rare handwritten letter from King George III in which he declares war on Napoleon has been sold at auction in the U.K.

Asian Carp has been deemed the enemies of America’s waterways, threatening to take over the Great Lakes and cause a disaster to the country’s ecosystem. Now, the battle against the invasive fish is becoming more aggressive, more expensive and more desperate.

Bacteria on the International Space Station are evolving and changing in their strange orbital environment -- but according to a new study, they don't seem to be any more dangerous to humans.

The evidence for aliens around one of the weirdest stars in our galaxy — Boyajian's star — is not looking promising.

Canadian astronomers have discovered a repetitive radio signal some 2.5 billion light-years away from Earth — only the second example known to mankind.

Nearly a month after it reached its destination, circling the asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has snapped an incredible image of the Earth.

The wrecks of two famous Royal Navy ships that were lost on a doomed Arctic mission to locate the Northwest Passage have sparked talk of a modern ‘curse.’

A startling new study is shedding new light on how much energy has been put into the Earth's oceans over the past 150 years – the equivalent of an atomic bomb explosion once per second for 150 years.

An adorable polar bear cub opened its eyes for the first time in a recording released by the Berlin Zoo on Wednesday. 

George, a Hawaiian tree snail who lived to the age of 14 and is the last known snail of his kind, has died.