A piece of a comet decided to take a fatal dive into the Earth’s atmosphere, causing a bright flash and explosion tens of ...

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The experiment at CERN produced pairs of electron and positron beams, propagating into an ambient plasma. The international ...

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Behind the Sun, the comet appears to show signs of acceleration beyond what is expected by gravity. And for reasons not yet ...

Even without the ISS, some humans will stay off planet for the foreseeable future. There is no plan to stop the continuous ...

For some, alien life not only exists, but it has also been visiting the Earth for a long time. And this is not necessarily a ...

New research has thrown a spanner in the works for giraffe conservation, after analyzing the genetics of giraffes kept in human care in North America, and finding that most of those studied are in ...

A fter 55 years missing from the Karakum Desert, it was suspected that the Turkestan long-eared bat ( Plecotus turkmenicus) had likely gone extinct or become very rare. Nobody had seen the species ...

According to calculations from IFLScience's resident astronomer, Dr Alfredo Carpineti, using data from NASA's Eyes on the Solar System, this will occur on November 13, 2026. After this date, the probe ...

Orcas are able to bring about a state of tonic immobility in great white sharks by ramming into the side of them at high ...

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