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The hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy may also be its shortest-lived world. The doomed planet is being eaten by its parent star

Advancing into the next frontier in astrophysics and cosmology depends on our ability to detect the presence of a particular type of wave in space, a primordial gravitational wave

Ever since ancient times, scholars have puzzled over the reasons that some musical note combinations sound so sweet while others are just downright dreadful

The important work shows that it is possible to generate immunity to newly identified species of Ebola virus with a vaccine originally designed to protect against a different species

The Planetary Sciences Group has published the first results of research into the impact of a large-sized celestial body on the planet Jupiter last July

In the past decade, robotic telescopes have turned astronomers' attention to scads of strange exploding stars, one-offs that may or may not point to new and unusual physics

A group of researchers have succeeded n building a fully functional replica model -- an ornithopter -- of a swallowtail butterfly, and they have filmed their model butterfly flying.

Ball lightning is a rare circular light phenomenon occurring during thunderstorms.

An MIT-led team has designed a green airplane that is estimated to use 70 percent less fuel than current planes while also reducing noise and emission of nitrogen oxides (NOx)

Using NASA satellite data and Google Earth, a researcher has reported finding evidence that North Korea has been logging in what is designated as a protected United Nations forest preserve