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Saturn is about to reach its annual opposition this week, when it appears at its brightest and biggest all year…

The patient: A 50-year-old woman in New YorkThe symptoms: The woman went to the hospital because she could not bend…

Donald Trump cannot make clean energy expensive again. He can only make Americans pay extra for it. His tariffs do…

Earth’s life-support systems are in peril — and they’re getting worse — but although the window for action is closing,…

An artist’s reconstruction of what the newly described bird-like dinosaur (Norellraptor barsboldi) would have looked like. (Image credit: Mr. Zhao…

The largest defensive wall at Oued Beht. Archaeologists think its base was constructed about 4,000 years ago. (Image credit: G. Lucarini, Oued…

Researchers have warned all summer that this year’s El Niño could be record-breaking and fuel extreme weather across the globe.…

QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Caldas Novas, Goiás, Brazil [-17.788739460, -48.70589106]What’s in the photo? A giant, sponge-like dome towering above its…

Newly discovered iron minerals could be the missing link in how water is stored in the deepest parts of Earth’s…

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 1,700-year-old limestone tomb with a rare poem inscribed on it in ancient Greek, likely…