Scientists now believe that a coronavirus is responsible for a recent pneumonia outbreak in the city of Wuhan.
The discovery has the potential to challenge what we currently know of how early galaxies formed.
France's Pasteur Institute revealed the blunder after it discovered that the vials had gone missing.
Future spacecraft could one day use dead stars as a way to determine their position in space.
The priceless Amber Room of the Tsars was looted and hidden by the Nazis in World War 2 but may now have been found again.