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The cosmic microwave background that permeates the universe has a Cold Spot, which is a fraction of a degree colder than its surroundings.

The 10-episode series about the scientist that began airing Tuesday explores the Nobel Prize winner's personal life.

The 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl power plant is still considered the worst nuclear disaster in history.

During the early years of the solar system, Mars got a little break from constant bombardment by space objects before the asteroids started up again.

"Our final recommendation is way more precise than I dreamed we would be able to achieve," lead researcher David Griffin said.

Thanks to decontamination efforts, workers can walk on most of the nuclear power plant's complex in everyday attire.

It’s not blood in the water — this red ooze in Antarctica comes from salty water trapped underneath a glacier that contains a lot of iron.

Yeonmi Park described executions, imprisonment and intense fear as the norm under the Kim regime.

These worms are parasites in the natural world but they could serve a higher purpose: breaking down plastic bags and reducing pollution that endangers our environment.

XB091D had slowed down to one revolution every few seconds, but began accelerating again less than one million years ago, and currently revolves once every 1.2 seconds.

Administrative professionals work hard to keep an organization running like a well-oiled machine. So, on this Administrative Professionals Day, say thanks to them with these quotes.

The Energy Transitions Commission published a report Tuesday that lays down a roadmap for achieving the targets of the Paris climate agreement.

Scientists associated with the ALICE collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have observed possible signatures of this hot and dense plasma even in collisions between protons.

Analysis of Cassini and Voyager data has revealed that this gigantic bubble of charged particles powered by solar winds may be more spherical than previously thought.

The spacecraft, which has been studying the Saturn system since 2004, will start its Grand Finale mission Wednesday and end it by plunging into the planet’s atmosphere Sept. 15.

Entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, who is wanted by the United States on multiple charges, filed a complaint against the FBI director for data theft by the agency.

The Philippine president is known for his ominous warnings -- and Duterte has a message for terrorists.

Researchers used some rather interesting techniques to come to their conclusion.

Scientists matched up stone carvings of a comet strike with ancient star formations to date and link the artwork to a devastating climate change that influenced human civilization.

Thousands participated in a memorial march at Auschwitz in Poland to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day.

NASA has an entire fleet of satellites orbiting Earth as we speak, and the way they move around the planet is hypnotizing.

Bodies of the females of Sericomyrmex radioheadi, a fungus-farming ant species, are covered in a white crystal-like layer which is totally absent in males of the species.

A team of researchers has, using simulations to model the behavior and evolution of galaxies, shown that the presence of dark matter can explain the diverse population of galaxies in the present-day universe.

The nebula, located 5,200 light-years from Earth, enshrouds a large, bright star named EZ Canis Majoris.

The latest citizen to be arrested has been identified as Tony Kim, also known as Kim Sang-duk, the Associated Press reported Sunday.

The Tianzhou-1 uncrewed cargo ship left Earth aboard a Long March 7 rocket Thursday, and docked with Tiangong-2 two days later.

Whitson, who broke the U.S. record for the most number of days in space, will receive a call Monday morning from President Donald Trump.

The victim, whose name has not been released, was a part of a patrol of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in eastern Ukraine.

When the crack eventually becomes big enough for the shelf to calve, it will create one of the biggest icebergs ever recorded in history.