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What's with those little tubes of pyrite? © NHM Vienna, Mathias Harzhauser Millimetre-sized tubes made of the golden shimmering material pyrite: Researchers have now uncovered...

Variable sun: images of the European space telescope SOHO in the extreme ultraviolet range over two activity cycles. © ESA, NASA ...

Blackbeard was a notorious pirate in the early 18th century. © Gwengoat/ iStock In 1718, the flagship of the famous pirate Blackbeard ran aground and...

Ancient wolf DNA, dating back to the Ice Age, reveals that dogs may have been first domesticated in modern-day Asia. After extensive research, we...

The probe, currently in interstellar space, is experiencing a technical glitch. Voyager 1, along with his brother Voyager 2, has been racing through the...

This week's space photo shows dark clouds of dust, glowing hydrogen gas and massive stars. Most notable: a gaping hole in the...

What does a galaxy look like from the side? The space photo of the week shows it. The Hubble Space Telescope captured this...

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