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Nearly every meteorite that falls onto Earth may ultimately come from a half dozen or so lost worlds that splintered apart soon after the birth of the solar system, a new study finds.

They are a true Aussie icon, but there’s a lot more behind that cute koala munching on gum leaves — secrets that scientists didn’t have a definitive picture of until now.

The longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century occurs on July 27 – this is what you need to know.

Gray wolves from the radioactive forbidden zone around the nuclear disaster site of Chernobyl are now roaming out into the rest of the world, raising the possibility they'll spread mutant genes that they may carryfar and wide, a new study finds.

A team of scientists is scanning the Pacific Ocean depths to find fragments of a huge meteor.

Are we alone? Unfortunately, neither of the answers feel satisfactory. To be alone in this vast universe is a lonely prospect. On the other hand, if we are not alone and there is someone or something more powerful out there, that too is terrifying.

Long before Fox Mulder and Dana Scully made alien-hunting famous in the hit show "The X-Files," British defense experts were quietly doing the same thing.

Astronomers have shared the first, remarkable image of a planet being formed.

A self-proclaimed paranormal researcher claims to have discovered a time warp on the outskirts of Las Vegas, which he says slows time down, Fox 5 Las Vegas reports.

The Pömmelte henge was active for some 300 years, starting from 2300BCE.

An unmanned rocket crashed in a huge fireball just seconds after liftoff off in Japan.

Officials with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) announced Friday that they rescued an orphaned bear cub after it was found with severe burns on all four of its paws.

NASA's experimental supersonic X-plane project has a new name: the X-59 QueSST.

A tiny species of spider lived deep inside a cave in Indiana — and scientists had no clue it existed until recently.

Images of a man’s skeleton, apparently crushed by a rock during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius went viral after their recent discovery.

The bodies of many different species of marine life — such as fish, sea turtles, eels, goliath groupers and even manatees — have washed ashore on Boca Grande beach in Florida over the past week.

A mysterious bronze hand has been unearthed by archaeologists near Hadrian’s Wall in the North of England.

About 5,000 years ago, the Mesopotamians buried two 12-year-olds — a boy and a girl — and surrounded their slender bodies with hundreds of bronze spearheads and what appears to be eight human sacrifices, a new study finds.

A remarkable space treasure map has led explorers to a mysterious shipwreck site.

Scientists have found the "building blocks" for life on Saturn's moon Enceladus, discovering complex organic molecules, according to a study published this week.