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Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

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A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS sheds millions of tons of water as it leaves our solar system. New radio scans find no signs of ...

USAF Sergeant James W Penniston claimed a cryptic code was telepathically downloaded into his mind after touching an ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

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Scientists used the 100-metre Green Bank Telescope to look for alien signals but detected no radio signals from 3I/ATLAS.

Recent scans of interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS by the Green Bank Telescope show no radio signals, yet astronomers argue it is ...