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This week, a long-standing mystery of how lupus is linked to the Epstein-Barr virus has been solved, the first radio ...

Iceland has no shortage of natural dangers – volcanic eruptions, glacial floods, scaldingly hot springs and bitterly cold winters. But it is at least one of the few places on Earth where humans don't ...

Astronomers have for the first time detected a coronal mass ejection from another star, shedding light on worlds orbiting red ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search ...

At the center of a galaxy 10 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole is the new record holder for brightest flare ...

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Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the ...

YR4, the "city-killer" asteroid that briefly made headlines last year due to a small but non-zero chance that it may hit the ...

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...