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With help from its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, NASA researchers spotted quite a gem last week.

After becoming the closest spacecraft to the Sun last month, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has gotten even closer, coming within 15 million of our solar system's star on its own, a feat NASA has called a success.

Hundreds of buffaloes have drowned in a river in southern Africa in a desperate attempt to escape a pride of lions.

Scientists have managed to capture, for the first time, a series of images showing what happens when galaxies collide and merge together, causing a massive explosion and supermassive black holes uniting to form one giant black hole. 

If you'd like to eat the world's most scientifically perfect pizza, you have two options: One, fly to Rome and order a Margherita pizza fresh from the brick oven; or, two, solve a long thermodynamic equation to simulate that glorious Italian pizza in your pathetic electric oven at home.

A viral video of a bear cub determined to follow its mother up a steep snowy mountainside has melted hearts around the world. But the clip of the plucky cub may have a darker side than you realize.

While fishing off of a charter boat near Charleston, South Carolina, Michael Krivohlavek and his fellow crew members were shocked to see a huge sea creature approach their vessel: a whale shark.

According to the government space agency, the airglow is "diffuse bands of light that stretch 50 to 400 miles into our atmosphere."  It typically occurs when  molecules, largely nitrogen and oxygen "energized by ultraviolet radiation from sunlight." 

Scientists have finally solved the mystery surrounding the mummified body of a 300-year-old lederhosen-wearing Austrian priest.

Scientists may be able to save the critically endangered northern white rhino from extinction, according to stunning new genetic research.

DALLAS, Texas — A bumper sticker from Wapakoneta, Ohio, advertising the city as the hometown of the "First Man to Step on the Moon" sold for $250.

A new study may finally confirm the reality of dust clouds that have circled the Earth, after scientists have had heated debates over their existence for more than 50 years.

A 1935 letter written by Ernest Hemingway about a 500-pound Atlantic Blue Marlin caught in the Bahamas is up for auction in Los Angeles this week.

A mysterious, bubbling mud geyser is on the move in Southern California, flitting dangerously close to railroad tracks, Highway 111 and some very expensive optic cables, like a geologic poltergeist, according to news sources.

As men relieved themselves at the public toilets in the coastal city of Antiochia ad Cragum some 1,800 years ago, they probably would have been amused by dirty scenes crafted into floor mosaics, archaeologists have found.

Archaeologists have discovered the exploded remains of a German V1 "flying bomb" that crashed in a forest in 1944 on the way to its target in London.

Scientists want to build a laser that could guide an extraterrestrial civilization and bring them to Earth.

Even the International Space Station has a local polling site, thanks to a Texas law that arranges special absentee ballots for U.S. astronauts who are in orbit on Election Day .

This group of galaxies can’t help but grin.

The stunning true story of how a British expedition to the Antarctic helped defeat the Nazis has been revealed for the first time in a new book.