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The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby “puffy” exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the alien world spins.

The Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of Ancient Greece, when the spa town of Hierapolis was founded at the top.

Scientists say AI has crossed a critical ‘red line’ after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves.

Stand back, ordinary ocean-dwelling life forms. There’s a new green, mutant hulk in town. This hefty microbe — nicknamed “Chonkus” by the scientists who found it — appears to have traits great for helping fight climate change. Microbiologist Max Schubert led…

Images captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that “coronal loops” give off subtle flashes of ultraviolet light before a solar flare, which could act as an early warning system for dangerous space weather.

Researchers documented the first spotted hyena in Egypt for 5,000 years after it was hit with a pickup truck for killing goats.

A solar explosion called a coronal mass ejection is poised to graze Earth on Friday or Saturday (Jan. 24 or Jan. 25), potentially triggering colorful auroras over the northern U.S.

Storm Éowyn is about to hit the U.K. and Ireland as forecasters warn the explosive “bomb cyclone” will bring snow, rain and potentially deadly superfast winds.

Giant blobs that lurk near Earth’s core are much older than scientists thought, new seismic data reveals.

Iceberg A23a is fast approaching the remote British island of South Georgia and the Sandwich islands