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Here’s a toast to Marianne Faithfull, a true rock & roll legend. Nobody was ever better at being an old rock star, except maybe Leonard Cohen. Yet the difference is that Cohen didn’t release his debut ...

First discovered in 2009, GJ 1214 b is described by the JWST team as being “sub-Neptune-sized” - smaller than the outermost ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

The chiastic pattern I’d come to love in Scripture also shows up in God’s design for aging. As a self-professed Bible nerd and a lover of symmetry, no discovery has made me happier than that ...

French archaeologists have discovered artifacts and sites spanning multiple centuries ... and a gold ring with an intaglio of ...

If true, those robust cells may still be living in Venus' atmosphere ... happen across the solar system — it's because scientists discovered evidence of phosphine, a compound of phosphorus ...

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A "supergiant" sea bug that was discovered in Vietnam bears an uncanny resemblance to a Star Wars villain, according to some observers. The monster-sized isopod, that can reach a staggering 32.5cm ...

Instead of a hydrogen-rich super-Earth, or a water world, the new data revealed concentrations of carbon-dioxide (CO 2) comparable to the levels found in the dense CO 2 atmosphere of Venus in our ...

“The discovered burial insignia of the rulers of Lithuania and Poland are priceless historical objects,” said Archbishop Gintaras Grušas of the Vilnius Archdiocese in a ...