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What would life in a far-flung star system look like?

Higher temperatures over Antarctica this year shrank the hole in the ozone layer to the smallest it's been since 1988.

Jupiter may not always have been a big ball of hydrogen and helium.

Frederic Chopin is buried in Paris' famed Père Lachaise Cemetery.

The mystery of why the ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus did not freeze over long ago may now be solved — heat from the scraping of rock churning within the fragmented core of Enceladus could keep its underground ocean warm for up to billions of years, a new study finds.

A snub appears to have led Adolf Hitler to the Nazi party.

A newly discovered species of great ape could soon be extinct if humans keep monkeying around with its environment, scientists say.

Horrific pictures show the moment when a Siberian tiger attacked a zookeeper in a Russian zoo.

The skeleton of a pregnant woman, dating back around 3,200 years, has been found near a temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Hathor at a place that was once called King Solomon's Mines, archaeologists recently announced.

Police in Zion, Illinois got one of their more unusual calls this week then they had to assist in the rescue of an obese raccoon that was trapped in a sewer grate.

A worried resident in Germany alerted police to what he thought was a World War II bomb in his garden. Officers rushed over — and found a particularly large zucchini.

Striking images capture the moment an American woman kissed Hitler - leaving him so enraged he reportedly fired all his security guards for his failure to thwart her.

A lost species of salamander has been rediscovered alive and well in Guatemala.

Scientists on the hunt for colliding black holes should turn their eyes to the quiet, outer regions of galaxies like the Milky Way, a new study suggests.

NASA's next Mars rover will be the sharpest-eyed craft ever to touch down on the Red Planet.

Pity the male woolly mammoth: These poor creatures were more likely to meet their end in natural traps — falling through thin ice, tumbling into holes or getting stuck in mudflows — than their female counterparts, a new study finds.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex was one of the scariest killers in the history of Planet Earth.

A newly declassified CIA document reveals that the intelligence agency investigated the possibility that Adolf Hitler was alive in South America as late as 1955 — nearly a decade after World War II ended.

A monstrous, meat-eating flying reptile that had a wingspan of a small airplane, could walk on all fours and stalked its prey on land has been found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.

British scientists have claimed alien lifeforms may have evolved in a similar way to the organisms here on Earth.