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Adam Hadhazy, writer and editor for The Kavli Foundation, contributed this article to Space.com's

When British photographer Lara Maiklem heard tens of thousands of sea creatures washed up on a beach near Kent, England, over the weekend she had to see the scene for herself.

Part of a prehistoric human skull and a bison bone decorated with a zigzag pattern — dubbed the world's "oldest Dutchwoman" and "oldest Dutch artwork" — have been revealed by scientists in the Netherlands, in research that highlights a sunken treasure trove of human archaeology beneath the North Sea.

The impressive hunting skills of a bald eagle were on full display after a fisherman recently set his camera up on a lake in Montana.

Stargazers, get your binoculars ready: a string of bright planets, called a "Planet Parade," will grace the night's sky this week, and the show is expected to last several days.

SpaceX successfully launched a Spanish communications satellite early today (March 6) on the landmark 50th flight of the company's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.

The world’s oldest message in a bottle has been discovered on a beach in Western Australia, almost 132 years after it was thrown into the ocean.

Billionaire Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and Seattle Seahawks owner, has made another nautical find: the USS Lexington, which was lost at the Battle of Coral Sea 76 years ago.

Stargazers, get your binoculars ready: a string of bright planets, called a "Planet Parade," will grace the night's sky this week, and the show is expected to last several days.

It's the biggest question in the universe. What happened before the Big Bang? Now world-famous physicist Steven Hawking says he has an answer.

If there is one thing that has bothered me over my 50-some years as an amateur astronomer, it is the way that most astronomy books give the impression that the planet Mercury is very difficult, if not almost impossible to see.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a new re-entry forecast for China's Tiangong-1 space lab.

A 127-million-year-old fossil of a baby bird has been unearthed that may pave the way for understanding how birds evolved during the age of dinosaurs.

According to new research, global sea level isn't rising steadily — it's getting faster every year.

A newfound species of tardigrade, or "water bear," with tendril-festooned eggs has been discovered in the parking lot of an apartment building in Japan.

Video of a young orphaned chimpanzee named Mussa snuggling with a pilot on his flight to safety is raising awareness about the poaching of the endangered species.

A Burmese python's eyes were bigger than its stomach (literally) when it decided to attack and swallow a white-tailed deer whole.

Experts in the U.K. have found the world’s oldest figurative tattoos on two ancient Egyptian mummies, one of which is the oldest tattooed female ever discovered.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity just drilled into a Red Planet rock for the first time in more than a year.

A thriving “hotspot” of 1.5 million Adelie penguins, a species fast declining in parts of the world, has been discovered on remote islands off the Antarctic Peninsula.