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The recently discovered asteroid due to pass by the Earth today actually looks like a skeletal face.
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A remnant of the past has been discovered among the remains of an ancient first century Roman city.
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Scientists have revealed that a high-speed asteroid will streak past our planet at the end of the month.
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New evidence has revealed that life may have appeared on Earth 300 million years earlier than thought.
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Paleontologists have unearthed a nest full of baby hadrosaurs in a fossil-rich region of Mongolia.
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Amid the numerous doomsday predictions of recent weeks comes the news that we are actually quite safe.
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Scientists have revealed new findings about the Pluto-sized ball of iron at the center of our planet.
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Scientists have unearthed a well-preserved mammoth specimen on the Lyakhovsky Islands in Eastern Russia.
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Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that hostile extraterrestrials could pose a threat to the Earth.
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The new mission will attempt a potentially world-saving maneuver by redirecting an asteroid's trajectory.
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A remarkably well preserved tomb has been discovered at the site of the infamous volcanic disaster.
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Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than a dozen small pyramids near the town of Gematon.
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An ambitious new mission aims to send a spacecraft to pick up samples collected by NASA's Mars rover.
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A World War II era railway tunnel has been unearthed by authorities at the train's rumored location.
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At a mere 21.5 inches tall, Chandra Bahadur Dangi had long been recognized as the smallest man on Earth.
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The number of trees left in all the forests on Earth is now believed to measure in the trillions.
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Scientists in Siberia have set up a lab dedicated to the goal of cloning a mammoth from ancient DNA.
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A previously undiscovered species of prehistoric sea scorpion the size of a human has been found in Iowa.
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Scientists have demonstrated that a comet impact can kick-start the formation of complex molecules.
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A new space elevator concept could see astronauts ascending in to the stratosphere before taking off.