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Learn about the upcoming flyby of asteroid 2026 JH2, which will pass Earth at a distance of 56,000 miles.

Learn about the elusive ghost elephants living in the Angolan Highlands, and find out why researchers are so intrigued by ...

Learn more about humans’ 3-million-year-long relationship with red meat, and how the food that shaped human evolution may now come with a high health and environmental cost in the modern age.

Learn how three people have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic. Here’s what the ...

Learn how divers repeatedly photographed a hairy mystery fish before researchers confirmed it was a new ghost pipefish species now named after Sesame Street’s Snuffleupagus. Since the early 2000s, ...

Learn about the recent volcanic eruption of Mount Dukono in Indonesia, and find out why Indonesia has such a high number of active volcanoes. A volcanic eruption at Indonesia’s Mount Dukono has rocked ...

Learn how researchers used DNA and 23andMe to connect 17th-century Maryland colonists to more than 1.3 million living people ...

Learn how researchers discovered traces of Andes virus lingering in a patient’s semen nearly six years after infection and why the findings are raising new questions during the current hantavirus ...

Learn more about the crime that took place on October 19, 2025 and about the priceless artifacts that are now missing. A diadem dripping in diamonds, a tiara spangled in sapphires, and a set of ...

A team of amateur astronomers has discovered a new comet — and it may be bright enough to be visible in daylight when it reaches its perihelion later this year. The discovery belongs to a group that ...