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A massive galaxy cluster dating back to an era when such enormous structures were only beginning to take…

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The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘A’, Ikeja, said it had intercepted three live pangolins during…

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a planet orbiting a star 60 lightyears away,…

Precision laser spectroscopy shows that the nucleus of fermium-255 is strongly elongated, resembling a rugby ball rather than…

Drones watching for sharks off Australia’s east coast have filmed dozens of young hammerheads swimming together in shallow…

At Palmyra Atoll in the remote Pacific Ocean, wildlife refuge manager Paige Mino observes red-footed boobies. Scientists have…

They don’t produce anything like the torrent of “shooting stars” associated with August’s Perseids or December’s Geminids, but…

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Rutting season is the annual mating season for deer, triggered by the shorter days. The ‘rut’ name comes…

Seaside communities along the east coast of England have lost at least 183 homes to coastal erosion and…

Just two weeks after reaching orbit, Europe’s new Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite has delivered its first spectacular images of…

James Webb reveals a massive cosmic structure that challenges our understanding of the Universe