This is known as gravitational lensing. The Cosmic Grapes were made 100 times brighter and larger than they would otherwise ...

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In May 1883, Krakatoa awoke and started to rumble with volcanic activity, culminating in an intense eruption on August 27. It ...

Antarctica has no native population or permanent residents, but it does have a transitory community of scientists and support ...

Solids and liquids turning to gas can create surprising motion, and in the California desert, moving rocks proved that melting ice could do it too.

Lamb on the lam? Butterflies butterfleeing? Meet some of the zoo animals who made a break for the wild.

After the Maya people known as Lakandon-Ch'ol were forced out of their capital, Lakam Tun ("Great Rock") in 1586, they moved further into the jungle, creating the city of Sak-Bahlán, or the "land of ...

A lmost all human languages follow Zipf's law of abbreviation – and it turns out, so do bird songs. This strange observation ...

In the more likely scenario, a star over 30 times the mass of our Sun was orbiting a stellar-size black hole. In the year ...

A new study on Uranus has found it is hotter than we thought, prompting scientists to suggest we should return to the ice giant.

According to those documents, on August 22 a "strong bright light was accompanied by smoke and travelled toward a village called 'Dilaver' in the eastern side of Suleymaniyah", while the nearby ...