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Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object we have ever sent into space, and in just a few months, it will cross a ...

Meet Dudgeon’s walking shark, the 10th known species in a genus famous for using their fins as legs to "walk" and the first ...

The moment was shot as part of Tiger Island, a BBC series that documents the feline wildlife of Bardiya National Park in ...

Hundreds of sextillions of dust grains may have escaped Earth and reached Europa, raising intriguing questions about the ...

The world's longest-lived vertebrate puzzled scientists for decades, until radioactive carbon released by thermonuclear ...

Jonathan’s recognition as a Guinness World Records ICON is warmly welcomed by the people of St Helena,” Nigel Phillips CBE, ...

Long before humans invented complex systems of symbolic communication, they began experimenting with abstract forms by ...

It was essentially a simplified version of what Stonehenge does, but radiocarbon dating suggests the new site was in use ...

The oldest known outbreak of plague has been unearthed from a 5,500-year-old hunter-gatherer settlement in southeast Siberia.

A s scientists slowly piece together the realities of Neanderthal life, some researchers are beginning to ask questions about ...

Now you try. Open up your preferred text-based AI and ask for a story. Chances are it will invent a tale about someone called ...