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The universe’s first rocky planets may have gotten their start astonishingly early — perhaps only 100 million years after the Big Bang.Explosions of some of the universe’s first massive stars could have created isolated pockets rich enough in dust...

This week's trip into the culture of young people is filled with bad ideas and stupidity, but it's that specific kind of stupidity...

Repairing an engineering marvel like the International Space Station is no easy feat by itself, but it's even more impressive when it's done 250 miles (400 kilometers) up.What is it?In this photograph, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie...

When Hurricane Michael tore through the Florida Panhandle in 2018, a beach house called the Sand Palace was left standing, while more than half the buildings around it were destroyed.Its owners had built it...

Summer is prime iceberg season in Greenland’s glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 was no exception. Especially notable was the berg that broke from the Petermann Glacier along Greenland’s northwest coast in August. Roughly the size of St. Thomas in the...

There is something striking about the way the UK's summer temperature record is being broken. In a climate that isn't changing, new records should generally become progressively rarer, because every time a record falls, it raises the bar for...

Chelsea's pregnancy was at full term when her waters broke and she went to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. She was checked over and told to go home.Lorna, who is married to Chelsea's brother Steven, said her...

Solving complex social problems with multiple interrelated causes can involve juggling a variety of factors. Securing funding, designing the right programs, and sustaining the political will necessary to implement them demands a targeted approach.Lyonel Tanganco, a graduate student in...

For the first time in 14 years, doctors have updated guidelines for preventing migraine attacks.The new recommendations from the American Academy of Neurology and American Headache Society, published August 31 in Neurology, incorporate evidence on treatments that weren’t available...