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The Trump administration selected a controversial Harvard astronomer to lead their new scientific advisory council to study ...

This eBay listing for never produced, alleged "Planet of the Apes" action figures is a puzzling mystery for toy collectors.

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

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NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered the most extensive evidence yet of complex organic molecules on Mars, detecting ...

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...

Scientists can't fully agree on what GJ504b actually is. It may be a massive planet or a brown dwarf, a mysterious class of ...

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