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Ski resorts in several countries were left looking like the surface of Mars after a recent fall of orange-tinged snow.
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Visitors to the French seaside resort of Nice have been left puzzled by the hole's sudden appearance.
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The new galaxies date back 13 billion years to a time shortly after the formation of the universe.
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Astronomers have revealed that they will be sharing a major new discovery with the world on October 16.
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Archaeologists have located the site of a gruesome structure that was built from hundreds of human skulls.
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Archaeologists have unearthed the long-lost ruins of a 4,000-year-old city known as Xarab-i Kilashin.
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified an ice deposit with more water than Lake Superior.
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The people of Cormorant, Minnesota have once again voted for a dog called Duke to be their mayor.
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A popular holiday resort near Buenos Aires in Argentina has been invaded by swarms of beetles.
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A woefully unconvincing Abominable Snowman has turned up in footage recorded at Formigal in Spain.
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Police in Mumbai resorted to an unusual tactic after a thief was caught swallowing a stolen necklace.
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Residents in Barnaul have become so fed up with politicians that they've resorted to voting for a cat.
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Scientists are hoping to breed hybrid tortoises in a renewed attempt to resurrect two extinct subspecies.
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NASA has released breathtaking new images of Pluto's surface taken by the New Horizons probe.
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Scientists have revealed that superbugs have now become resistant to even our last-resort antibiotics.
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A new bill has been approved that will make it possible for companies to mine resources from asteroids.
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The first ever high resolution images of the surface of Pluto have been unveiled at a press conference.
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The successful test saw the enormous booster put out a staggering 3.6 million pounds of thrust.
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ESO’s Very Large Telescope has snapped a breathtaking image of a distant 'cometary globule'.
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Where once there were just 15 Espanola giant tortoises left there are now more than 1,000.