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Scientists have determined that 1,600-degree lava once surged to the surface in what is now Costa Rica.
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Derek McLennan earned almost $2.6 million after unearthing a horde of 10th-century Viking artefacts.
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Scientists have been trying to work out what the weather might be like on this recently discovered world.
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Professor Stephen Hawking is making a documentary about humanity's need to colonize other worlds.
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There is evidence to suggest that Viking longhouses were 'buried' by being covered in mounds of Earth.
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Scientists have announced the discovery of a freezing Earth-mass world 13,000 light years away.
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Discovered near Foshan in the southeast of the country, the eggs date back over 70 million years.
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Symbols found at Gobekli Tepe seem to confirm that a comet struck the Earth in the year 10,950 B.C.
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Researchers in Italy have located two undisclosed 'relics' that once belonged to da Vinci himself.
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A large terrestrial planet located 40 light years away could be the perfect place to search for ET.
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The remains of five former Archbishops of Canterbury have been unearthed under a medieval parish church.
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For a new experiment, Harvard researchers are planning to spray aerosols in to the Earth's stratosphere.
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The space agency will be holding a press briefing on Thursday about 'the search for life beyond Earth'.
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The aim will be to drill all the way down through the Earth's crust for the first time in history.
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Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around GJ 1132b - a planet situated 39 light years away.
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A rare alabaster carving of Queen Tiye has been discovered along the west bank of the River Nile.
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A catastrophic rise in temperature wiped out the vast majority of life on Earth 250 million years ago.
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The unopened tomb was discovered by archaeologists during a Spanish archaeological mission in West Aswan.
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Back when the tallest trees were only a few feet high, huge towers of fungus grew in excess of 8 meters.
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A mysterious 2,000-year-old tomb with a pyramid-like shape has been found beneath a construction site.