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The first color image of Ultima Thule, taken at a distance of 85,000 miles (137,000 kilometers) at 4:08 Universal Time on January 1, 2019, highlights its reddish surface. At left is an enhanced color image taken by the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), produced by combining the near infrared, red and blue channels. The center image taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) has a higher spatial resolution than MVIC by approximately a factor of five. At right, the color has been overlaid onto the LORRI image to show the color uniformity of the Ultima and Thule lobes. Note the reduced red coloring at the neck of the object.

Ultima Thule is really two objects that form a space 'snowman'

False-color image of a rare early Quadrantid, captured by a NASA meteor camera in 2010.

The first meteor shower of the year peaks tonight

News from Mars: A mile-deep ice crater and marsquakes

Images for use in reporting the discovery of 2018 VG18 "Farout". Artist concept of 2018 VG18 "Farout". Credit Roberto Molar Candanosa/Carnegie Institution for Science.

'Farout,' the most-distant solar system object discovered

Space & Science

The year's brightest comet streaks by Earth this weekend

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 km).

Water found on asteroid by OSIRIS-REx explorer

The Geminid meteor shower is scheduled to peak overnight in the United States, but Ben Woodgates got an early look at the phenomenon in northern New Zealand.
Woodgates said he had never done night photography before, so he ended up taking about 750 photographs overnight and experimented with different settings until he found something that looked good

Geminid meteor shower: How and when to watch

Artist's impression of the exoplanet HAT-P-11b with its extended helium atmosphere blown away by the star, an orange dwarf star smaller, but more active, than the Sun.

This exoplanet is inflated like a balloon

This is NASA InSight's first selfie on Mars. It displays the lander's solar panels and deck. On top of the deck are its science instruments, weather sensor booms and UHF antenna. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

InSight takes its first selfie on Mars

This illustration shows the position of NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, outside of the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the Sun that extends well past the orbit of Pluto. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA: Voyager 2 spacecraft reaches interstellar space after four decades exploring solar system

A photo illustration shows the first interstellar asteroid: `Oumuamua. This unique object was discovered on 19 October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai`i. Subsequent observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories around the world show that it was travelling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. `Oumuamua seems to be a dark red highly-elongated metallic or rocky object, about 400 metres long, and is unlike anything normally found in the Solar System.

The top space stories of 2018: Mars, new moons and a mystery asteroid

NASA spacecraft meets with asteroid

NASA's InSight Mars lander acquired this image using its robotic arm-mounted, Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC).
This image was acquired on November 26, 2018, Sol 0 where the local mean solar time for the image exposures was 14:04:35. Each IDC image has a field of view of 45 x 45 degrees.

What's next for NASA's Mars InSight lander?

NASA spacecraft meets with asteroid

NASA will go from 'Moon to Mars' with new partnerships

Scientists measure all of the starlight ever produced in the universe

This image shows an artist's impression of the planet's surface.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Frozen super-Earth discovered six light-years away

ESO's exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the centre of the Milky Way. New observations show clumps of gas swirling around at about 30% of the speed of light on a circular orbit just outside a four million solar mass black hole — the first time material has been observed orbiting close to the point of no return, and the most detailed observations yet of material orbiting this close to a black hole. This visualisation uses data from simulations of orbital motions of gas swirling around at about 30% of the speed of light on a circular orbit around the black hole.

This week in space: The stellar things you missed

Neanderthals might not be the hunched cavemen we thought they were, study says

NASA's InSight lander has touched down on Mars

This is an image of Apep captured at 8 microns in the thermal infrared with the VISIR camera on the European Southern Observatory's VLT telescope, Mt Paranal, Chile. CREDIT
University of Sydney/European Southern Observatory

First-known 'pinwheel' star system is beautiful, dangerous and doomed

Artist impression of Abell 2597 showing the central supermassive black hole expelling cold, molecular gas -- like the pump of a giant intergalactic fountain.

Black holes, galactic fountains and a Big Bang star: This week in space

AZRAK, JORDAN: Photo dated 18 November 1999 shows a Leonid meteor storm over the Azrak desert, 90km east of Amman. The storm packed up to some 1,500 meteros per hour visible with the eye. The Leonids - so called because they appear in the sky in the region of the constellation of Leo - are a stream of minute dust particles trailing behind the Tempel-Tuttle comet, which is visible from earth every 33 years. (Photo credit should read JAMAL NASRALLAH/AFP/Getty Images)

Leonid meteor shower peaks this weekend: How to watch

The worlds oldest figurative artwork from Borneo dated to a minimum of 40,000 years.

Oldest figurative artwork found in a cave that's full of surprises

Earliest discovery of lead exposure found in Neanderthal children

Bright swaths of red in the upper atmosphere, known as airglow, can be seen in this image taken from the International Space Station. NASA's ICON mission, with a planned launch for the summer of 2017, will observe how interactions between terrestrial weather and a layer of charged particles called the ionosphere create the colorful glow.

NASA 'goes for gold' Thursday with successful mission launch

The InSight Lander
This artist's concept shows the InSight lander, its sensors, cameras and instruments.
InSight is will take the first-ever-in-depth look at Mars' "inner space." InSight stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. Its three instruments are a seismometer, a heat flow probe, and a radio science experiment. These instruments will shed light on how warm and geologically active Mars still is, study its reflexes as it whips about in its orbit around the sun, and provide essential clues on the evolution of the rocky planets of our solar system. So while InSight is a Mars mission, it's also more than a Mars mission.
InSight will launch between May 5 through June 8, 2018 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the InSight Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, built the spacecraft. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, which is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
For more information about the mission, go to: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight.

Mars InSight is coming in for a landing soon on the Red Planet

In this Friday, July 27, 2018 photo, a firefighting helicopter makes a water drop as the sun sets over a ridge burning near Redding, Calif., in efforts against the Carr Fire. Scorching heat, winds and dry conditions complicated firefighting efforts. (Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee/ AP

Wildfire smoke and your health: Do you need to worry?

Neanderthals are commonly thought to have relied on dangerous close range hunting techniques, using non-projectile weapons like the thrusting spears depicted here.

Neanderthals' lives weren't more violent than humans', study suggests

Giant nocturnal elephant birds are shown foraging in the ancient forests of Madagascar at night.

Elephant birds were blind, nocturnal and taller than Big Bird

Bright swaths of red in the upper atmosphere, known as airglow, can be seen in this image taken from the International Space Station. NASA's ICON mission, with a planned launch for the summer of 2017, will observe how interactions between terrestrial weather and a layer of charged particles called the ionosphere create the colorful glow.

NASA's newest mission, ICON, could launch this week

Artist concept showing the Dawn spacecraft with Ceres and Vesta.

NASA's Dawn mission to strange places in our solar system ends

A photo illustration shows the first interstellar asteroid: `Oumuamua. This unique object was discovered on 19 October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai`i. Subsequent observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories around the world show that it was travelling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. `Oumuamua seems to be a dark red highly-elongated metallic or rocky object, about 400 metres long, and is unlike anything normally found in the Solar System.

Interstellar object may have been alien probe, Harvard paper argues, but experts are skeptical

Artist's conception of Kepler.

After finding thousands of planets, NASA's Kepler mission ends

U.S. astronaut Nick Hague, right, and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station wave as they board the rocket prior to the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (Yuri Kochetkov, Pool Photo via AP)

Astronaut recounts harrowing failed space launch

The Mars Opportunity rover (computer visualization).

Where are you, Opportunity rover?

Look up as Orionid meteor shower peaks this weekend

An artist's illustration of the fish.

This Jurassic flesh-eating fish with piranha-like teeth is the stuff of nightmares

The ship was surveyed and digitally mapped by two remote underwater vehicles

This is the world's oldest intact shipwreck

First suspected 'exomoon' discovered 8,000 light-years away

Reconstruction of the young Diplodocus "Andrew" in its environment. The teeth of "Andrew" were different from those of adult Diplodocus, indicating that "Andrew" fed on a wider variety of plant types. Young sauropods like "Andrew" may have also lived in more forested environments for food and protection

Rare baby dinosaur fossil is full of surprises

What Cassini found as it plunged into Saturn a year ago

Bones reveal Neanderthal child was eaten by a giant bird

This is an artist's reconstruction of Ledumahadi mafube foraging in the Early Jurassic of South Africa. In the foreground, Heterodontosaurus (another South African dinosaur). CREDIT: Viktor Radermacher/University of the Witwatersrand

New 26,000-pound dinosaur discovery was Earth's largest land animal

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Why elephants have cracks in their skin

"The first big raid by the 8th Air Force was on a Focke Wulf plant at Marienburg. Coming back, the Germans were up in full force and we lost at least 80 ships - 800 men, many of them pals." 1943. Army Air Forces. (OWI)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #: 208-YE-7
WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1087

Shockwaves from WWII bombing raids reached the edge of space

An artist's conception of a distant Solar System Planet X, which could be shaping the orbits of smaller extremely distant outer Solar System objects like 2015 TG387 discovered by a team of Carnegie's Scott Sheppard, Northern Arizona University's Chad Trujillo, and the University of Hawaii's David Tholen. Illustration by Roberto Molar Candanosa and Scott Sheppard/Courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science

The hunt for Planet X turns up a new solar system object

A suite of Middle Neolithic pottery including a typical Danilo ware, figulina, and rhyton.

This 7,200-year-old cheese stands alone among world's oldest

Blombos Cave drawing with ocher pencil on silcrete stone.

The earliest drawing in history: A hashtag found in South Africa

Paging Mr. Spock: 'Star Trek' planet Vulcan found?

Satellites, planes and comets transit across the night sky under stars that appear to rotate above Corfe Castle on August 12, 2016 in Corfe Castle, United Kingdom.

Look up for the Perseid meteor shower this weekend

Richard (Bert) Roberts, Vladimir Ulianov and Maxim Kozlikin (clockwise from top) in the East Chamber of Denisova Cave, Russia.

DNA reveals first-known child of Neanderthal and Denisovan, study says

New dinosaur fossils show 'weird' evolution from meat-eaters to insect-eaters

The image shows the distribution of surface ice at the Moon's south pole (left) and north pole (right), detected by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument. Blue represents the ice locations, plotted over an image of the lunar surface, where the gray scale corresponds to surface temperature (darker representing colder areas and lighter shades indicating warmer zones). The ice is concentrated at the darkest and coldest locations, in the shadows of craters. This is the first time scientists have directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface.

Water ice found at the moon's poles, study says

Children in Ancient Rome had Vitamin D deficiency, study says

Novak Djokovic of Serbia takes a break from the heat while playing against Marton Fucsovics of Hungary during their Day 2 2018 US Open Men's Singles match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on August 28, 2018. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

Rule change tries to cool players in 'nightmare' heat at US Open

Eugene Parker, the pioneer behind the 'mission to touch the sun'

Artist's conception of SIMP J01365663+0933473, an object with 12.7 times the mass of Jupiter, but a magnetic field 200 times more powerful than Jupiter's. This object is 20 light-years from Earth.

Strange 'rogue planet' travels through space alone

Artist's concept of the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft approaching the sun. In order to unlock the mysteries of the corona, but also to protect a society that is increasingly dependent on technology from the threats of space weather, we will send Solar Probe Plus to touch the sun.

On 'mission to touch the sun,' Parker Solar Probe has launched

New theory paints more sophisticated picture of ancient Easter Island

This 228 million-year-old turtle didn't have a shell

The Andromeda galaxy, the largest galactic neighbor to our own Milky Way, contains hundreds of billions of stars.

Long-lost sibling of the Milky Way shredded by cannibal galaxy

The total lunar eclipse blood moon of April 2014.

Lunar eclipse: How to watch the extra special blood moon and a brighter Mars

Photo of Carn Goedog, source of spotted dolerite bluestones erected in the early stage of Stonehenge's construction with dates of quarrying from 3350--3030 cal BC to 3020--2880 cal BC.

Who was buried at Stonehenge? New study sheds light

The Apollo program included 12 manned missions that launched in the late 1960s and early 70s. Three missions orbited the Earth: Apollo 7, 9 and Apollo-Soyuz. Two missions orbited the moon: Apollo 8 and 10. One made a lunar swingby: Apollo 13 -- a malfunction forced NASA to cancel the landing. Six missions landed on the moon: Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.

Did life once exist on the moon?

Artist's concept of the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft approaching the sun. In order to unlock the mysteries of the corona, but also to protect a society that is increasingly dependent on technology from the threats of space weather, we will send Solar Probe Plus to touch the sun.

NASA's mission to touch the sun launches soon

Artistic impression of the Mars Express spacecraft probing the southern hemisphere of Mars.

Evidence detected of lake beneath the surface of Mars

12 new moons discovered around Jupiter

Life reconstruction of the head of the new armored dinosaur Akainacephalus johnsoni.

Newly discovered armored dinosaur lived on a lost continent

A blood moon rises over Gaza City, Friday, July 27, 2018. Skywatchers around much of the world are looking forward to a complete lunar eclipse that will be the longest this century. The so-called "blood moon" Friday, when it turns a deep red, will be visible at different times in Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe and South America when the sun, Earth and moon line up perfectly, casting Earth's shadow on the moon. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

The blood moon lunar eclipse offers thrilling views

In this artistic rendering, based on a real image of the IceCube Lab at the South Pole, a distant source emits neutrinos that are detected below the ice by IceCube sensors, called DOMs.

'Ghost particle' found in Antarctica provides astronomy breakthrough

Lunar mystery solved by recovery of lost Apollo mission tapes

The Dikika foot is one part of a partial skeleton of a 3.32 million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis child.

3.3 million-year-old fossil shows that ancient toddlers climbed trees

This spectacular image from the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope is the first clear image of a planet caught in the very act of formation around the dwarf star PDS 70. The planet stands clearly out, visible as a bright point to the right of the centre of the image, which is blacked out by the coronagraph mask used to block the blinding light of the central star.

First confirmed image of the birth of a planet

A photo illustration shows the first interstellar asteroid: `Oumuamua. This unique object was discovered on 19 October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai`i. Subsequent observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories around the world show that it was travelling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. `Oumuamua seems to be a dark red highly-elongated metallic or rocky object, about 400 metres long, and is unlike anything normally found in the Solar System.

What exactly was this 'interstellar visitor'?

The asteroid impact that eliminated non-avian dinosaurs destroyed global forests. Here, a hyopothetical surviving bird lineage -- small-bodied and specialized for a ground-dwelling lifestyle--flees a burning forest in the aftermath of the asteroid strike.

These were the unlikely survivors after dinosaurs went extinct

This illustration shows Cassini diving through the Enceladus plume in 2015. New ocean world discoveries from Cassini and Hubble will help inform future exploration and the broader search for life beyond Earth.

Could life exist on Saturn's moon Enceladus?

Cristina Robins Unveils a portion of a whale skull

New species among rare treasure trove of fossils found in California

Three decades after the Challenger disaster, Christa McAuliffe's lessons will finally be taught

NASA's Curiosity rover finds organic matter on Mars

The Mars Opportunity rover (computer visualization).

Opportunity rover threatened by giant storm on Mars

A Chinese storage jar from the Java Sea Shipwreck. These jars would have held spices, dried tea leaves, fish sauce, pickled
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vegetables, and other perishable goods. Some of these jars have cyclical date stamps on them.
Photo © The Field Museum, cat. no. 350475.

Treasure trove reveals origins of 800-year-old shipwreck

A self-portrait taken by NASA's Curiosity rover taken on Sol 2082 (June 15, 2018). A Martian dust storm has reduced sunlight and visibility at the rover's location in Gale Crater. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Martian dust storm has become 'planet-encircling,' NASA says

A statue representing an iceman named Oetzi, discovered on 1991 in the Italian Schnal Valley glacier, is displayed at the Archaeological Museu of Bolzano on February 28, 2011 during an official presentation of the reconstrution. Based on three-dimensional images of the mummy's skeleton as well as the latest forensic technology, a new model of the living Oetzi has been created by Dutch experts Alfons and Adrie Kennis.
AFP PHOTO / Andrea Solero (Photo credit should read Andrea Solero/AFP/Getty Images)

Weapons reveal how this 5,300-year-old ice mummy lived -- and died

The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum: In this highest-resolution image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, great blocks of Pluto's water-ice crust appear jammed together in the informally named al-Idrisi mountains. "The mountains bordering Sputnik Planum are absolutely stunning at this resolution," said New Horizons science team member John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute. "The new details revealed here, particularly the crumpled ridges in the rubbly material surrounding several of the mountains, reinforce our earlier impression that the mountains are huge ice blocks that have been jostled and tumbled and somehow transported to their present locations."

Pluto has 'Earth-like characteristics,' study says

An adult male Tapanuli orangutan named Togos resting

Meet the top 10 new species of 2018

TEM image of deformed diamond matrix in Almahata Sitta MS-170 meteorite. Scale bar is 200 nm.

These diamonds are from one of our solar system's 'lost planets'

Kalinga archaeological site on the Philippine island of Luzon

Humans were in Philippines 700,000 years ago

International Asteroid Day: Are we ready if an asteroid strikes Earth?

These are images of 2015 BZ509 obtained at the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBTO) that established its retrograde co-orbital nature. The bright stars and the asteroid (circled in yellow) appear black and the sky white in this negative image.

This object isn't supposed to be in our solar system

Medieval grave reveals rare 'coffin birth' and neurosurgery

This artist's impression shows the exiled asteroid 2004 EW95, the first carbon-rich asteroid confirmed to exist in the Kuiper Belt and a relic of the primordial Solar System. This curious object likely formed in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and must have been transported billions of kilometres from its origin to its current home in the Kuiper Belt.

Why this rare asteroid was 'exiled' from our solar system

One of the nine human skeletons found on the floor level of house 40. This adolescent was found lying on their side. The white arrow points north. Photograph: Kalmar County Museum.

Skeletons tell story of 'truly horrifying' fifth-century massacre

Old data reveal 'plumes' on ocean world that could host life

Artist impression of protoplanets forming around a young star.

Three 'baby' planets found forming around newborn star

A bleached Acropora colony

Global warming is killing the Great Barrier Reef, study says

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), shown here in a conceptual illustration, will identify exoplanets orbiting the brightest stars just outside our solar system.

NASA's planet-hunting satellite TESS launches

Cow skull. 3D reconstruction of the cow skull showing internally and externally the hole produced by trepanation. Bar corresponds to 10 cm.

Skull surgery was performed on this Stone Age cow, study says

This is a mummified specimen from Atacama region of Chile.

Researchers finally solve mystery of 'alien' skeleton

Ice age throwback: 13,000-year-old footprints found off Canadian coast

The Munich specimen of the transitional bird Archaeopteryx. It preserves a partial skull (top left), shoulder girdle and both wings slightly raised up (most left to center left), the ribcage (center), and the pelvic girdle and both legs in a "cycling" posture (right); all connected by the vertebral column from the neck (top left, under the skull) to the tip of the tail (most right). Imprints of its wing feathers are visible radiating from below the shoulder and vague imprints of the tail plumage can be recognised extending from the tip of the tail.

This 'enigmatic' feathered dinosaur didn't fly like modern birds

Mysterious Denisovans interbred with modern humans more than once

This could be why our eyebrows evolved

11,000 years ago, our ancestors survived abrupt climate change

Reconstruction of the Upward Sun River base camp

11,500-year-old infant remains reveal ancient population

This illustration depicts a hypothetical uneven ring of dust orbiting KIC 8462852, also known as Boyajian's Star or Tabby's Star.

Why does the 'most mysterious star in the universe' act this way?

La Pasiega, section C. Cave wall with paintings. The scalariform (ladder shape) composed of red horizontal and vertical lines (centre left) dates to older than 64,000 years and was made by Neanderthals.

New findings paint picture of Neanderthals as artists

New American Girl doll is an aspiring Martian astronaut

What really happens inside a solar eruption

Rosette Nebula image is based on data obtained as part of the INT Photometric H-Alpha Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane.

A hole in the heart of the Rosette Nebula

The TRAPPIST-1 star, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it.

Potential for life is higher on these Earth-sized planets

Repton 1982, Feaature 940, looking S

Rare find: Mass grave may belong to Viking Great Army

Bright swaths of red in the upper atmosphere, known as airglow, can be seen in this image taken from the International Space Station. NASA's ICON mission, with a planned launch for the summer of 2017, will observe how interactions between terrestrial weather and a layer of charged particles called the ionosphere create the colorful glow.

NASA 'goes for gold' Thursday with successful mission launch

This artist's view shows the planet orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris. This exoplanet is the first to have its rotation rate measured. Its eight-hour day corresponds to an equatorial rotation speed of 100 000 kilometres/hour — much faster than any planet in the Solar System.

This little satellite will investigate a curious star and its planet

Modern fossil discovery rewrites human history

Excavated structure at the northern edge of the Grand Plaza at Teposcolula-Yucundaa. Architectural investigations of the Grand Plaza resulted in the unexpected discovery of a large epidemic cemetery associated with the 1545-1550 cocoliztli epidemic. The cemetery was found to contain numerous mass burials, attesting to the catastrophic nature of the epidemic.

Scientists identify what may have killed millions in mystery epidemic

Ingredients for life found in meteorites that crashed to Earth

What's sending mysterious repeating fast radio bursts in space?

Eight planets found orbiting distant star, NASA says

First-seen neutron star collision creates light, gravitational waves and gold

This inner slope of a Martian crater has several of the seasonal dark streaks called "recurrent slope lineae," or RSL, that a November 2017 report interprets as granular flows, rather than darkening due to flowing water. The image is from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Flows of 'water' on Mars may actually be sand, new study reveals

A photo illustration shows the first interstellar asteroid: `Oumuamua. This unique object was discovered on 19 October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai`i. Subsequent observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories around the world show that it was travelling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. `Oumuamua seems to be a dark red highly-elongated metallic or rocky object, about 400 metres long, and is unlike anything normally found in the Solar System.

Meet 'Oumuamua, the first observed interstellar visitor to our solar system

This artist's impression shows dust forming in the environment around a supernova explosion. VLT observations have shown that these cosmic dust factories make their grains in a two-stage process, starting soon after the explosion, but continuing long afterwards.

'Zombie' star won't die, even after exploding

Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto's horizon. The smooth expanse of the informally named icy plain Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline. To the right, east of Sputnik, rougher terrain is cut by apparent glaciers. The backlighting highlights more than a dozen layers of haze in Pluto's tenuous but distended atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) to Pluto; the scene is 780 miles (1,250 kilometers) wide.

Still missing Cassini? Here's what else is out there

The total solar eclipse has come and gone

This artist's impression shows the temperate planet Ross 128 b, with its red dwarf parent star in the background. This planet, which lies only 11 light-years from Earth, was found by a team using ESO's unique planet-hunting HARPS instrument. The new world is now the second-closest temperate planet to be detected after Proxima b. It is also the closest planet to be discovered orbiting an inactive red dwarf star, which may increase the likelihood that this planet could potentially sustain life. Ross 128 b will be a prime target for ESO's Extremely Large Telescope, which will be able to search for biomarkers in the planet's atmosphere.

Newly discovered nearby planet could support life

A grand grave of a great Viking warrior excavated during the 1880s has been found to be that of a female Viking warrior. She was also buried with a gaming board and pieces, only hierarchically associated with officers to use for battle strategy and tactics. The drawing is a reconstruction of how the grave with the woman originally may have looked.

Iconic Viking grave belonged to a female warrior

Axial T2-weighted images of the brain obtained before (Panel A, left ) and after (Panel B, right)) this astronaut had undergone
long-duration spaceflight on the International Space Station (Participant 18). The astronaut presented with opticdisk
edema and the visual impairment and intracranial pressure syndrome after spaceflight. Crowding of the sulci
can be seen at the vertex. The gyrus (asterisk) is the precentral gyrus (primary motor cortex).

Long-term spaceflight 'squeezes' the brain, study says

This early human ancestor is to blame for genital herpes

Illustration of Cassini diving between Saturn and its innermost rings as part of the mission's Grand Finale. The spacecraft will perform a series of 22 daring orbits passing through the yet unexplored region between the planet and its rings and collecting unprecedented data.
Eventually Cassini will plunge and burn up into Saturn's atmosphere on 15 September 2017, satisfying planetary protection requirements to avoid possible contamination of any moons of Saturn that could have conditions suitable for life.

Cassini, NASA's 13-year Saturn mission, has ended

Cassini's swan song: 13-year Saturn mission ends Friday

What Cassini learned about Saturn during its death dive

Meet 'vika': New 2-pound rat discovered

Two men try to beat the current pushing them down an overflowing Brays Bayou in Houston on August 27.

Did climate change impact Hurricane Harvey?

This illustrations shows hydrocarbon compounds split into carbon and hydrogen inside ice giants, such as Neptune, which turns into a "diamond [rain] shower."

Martian snow and diamond rain: Wild weather in our solar system

Spectacular images from the Hinode spacecraft show the solar eclipse, which darkened the sky in parts of the Western United States and Southeast Asia yesterday, May 20, 2012. This image shows the maximum eclipse.

Missed the eclipse? America's next one is in 2024

People watch the start of the solar eclipse at Big Summit Prairie ranch in Oregon's Ochoco National Forest near the city of Mitchell on August 21, 2017.
The Sun started to vanish behind the Moon as the partial phase of the so-called Great American Eclipse began Monday, with millions of eager sky-gazers soon to witness "totality" across the nation for the first time in nearly a century.

You saw the eclipse -- so should you see the eye doctor?

A dodo and its chick.

What you didn't know about the dodo

Artist conception of the KELT-9 system. The host star is a hot, rapidly rotating A-type star that is about 2.5 times more massive and almost twice as hot as our sun. The hot star blasts its nearby planet KELT-9b, which transits in front of the star once only 36 hours, with massive amounts of ultraviolet and optical radiation, leading to a dayside temperature of the tidally-locked planet of 7800 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter that most stars and only 2000 degrees cooler than the sun.

Newly discovered exoplanet is 'hotter than most stars'

A group gathered in a window to view the total solar eclipse over London through smoked glass. 29th June 1927

Why eclipses have inspired terror and awe

People look into the sky near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany.

Can you really go blind staring at a solar eclipse?

A man takes a shower at a beach of Alimos suburb, in Athens Wednesday, July 12, 2017. A summer heatwave has hit Greece, with temperatures reaching a high of 39 degrees Celsius (102 Fahrenheit) in Athens.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Weather disasters to impact 2 out of 3 Europeans by 2100, study says

Asteroid Day: Monitoring the skies for the next strike

Ancient Egyptian's wooden toe is sophisticated prosthetic

American astronaut Joseph Tanner waves to the camera during a space walk as part of the STS-115 mission to the International Space Station, September 2006. (Photo by NASA/Getty Images)

What happens if astronauts get sick in space?

Exoplanet has a 'glowing water vapor' atmosphere

Oldest Homo sapiens fossils discovered

A picture of the 5000 year old Late Neolithic CTC dog skull in the lab before it underwent whole genome sequencing.

Your dog descended from Late Stone Age wolves, study says

Planet Earth with a spectacular sunset.

Earth to warm 2 degrees Celsius by the end of this century, studies say

UNDATED: This undated NASA handout shows Saturn's moon, Titan, in ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths. The Cassini spacecraft took the image while on its mission to. gather information on Saturn, its rings, atmosphere and moons. The different colors represent various atmospheric content on Titan. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)

How life may find a way on Saturn's moon

The delicately structured glow of the solar corona, or solar atmosphere, is seen during the March 7th 1970 total eclipse of the Sun. The corona is visible to the naked eye only during an eclipse.

What scientists hope to learn from the eclipse

Scanning electron microscope image of the tardigrade species Ramazzottius varieornatus.
CREDIT: Kazuharu Arakawa and Hiroki Higashiyama, Keio University

The microscopic critter that can survive almost anything

A picture shows a glass of Single Malt whisky produced at the Auchentoshan Distillery, a Single Malt whisky distillery, on the outskirts of Glasgow on December 12, 2016.

Why whiskey tastes better with a little water

Jurassic-era crocodiles had T. rex teeth

NASA's colorful clouds light up the sky

Artist reconstruction of Macrauchenia patachonica.

DNA solves ancient animal riddle that Darwin couldn't

NASA's Kepler space telescope team has identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and in the habitable zone of their star.

NASA's Kepler mission finds 10 Earth-size exoplanets, 209 others

Artist's concept of the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft approaching the sun. In order to unlock the mysteries of the corona, but also to protect a society that is increasingly dependent on technology from the threats of space weather, we will send Solar Probe Plus to touch the sun.

Here comes the sun: NASA's first mission to the star set for 2018

This image shows Jupiter's south pole, as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers). The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter. Multiple images taken with the JunoCam instrument on three separate orbits were combined to show all areas in daylight, enhanced color, and stereographic projection. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles

Juno mission first results: Jupiter isn't like what researchers expected

This artist's concept shows OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb, a planet discovered through a technique called microlensing.

Icy Earth-mass exoplanet is 'colder than Hoth'

This planet is located in the liquid water habitable zone surrounding its host star, a small, faint red star named LHS 1140. The planet weighs about 6.6 times the mass of Earth and is shown passing in front of LHS 1140. Depicted in blue is the atmosphere the planet may have retained.

Newly discovered 'super-Earth' may be the 'most exciting exoplanet'

UNDATED: This undated NASA handout shows Saturn's moon, Titan, in ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths. The Cassini spacecraft took the image while on its mission to. gather information on Saturn, its rings, atmosphere and moons. The different colors represent various atmospheric content on Titan. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)

Decoding the mysterious 'magic islands' on Saturn's moon

Europa Enceladus

NASA: Nearby ocean worlds could be best bet for life beyond Earth

Double sunset: Could 'Tatooine' planets be habitable?

Neanderthals may have self-medicated long before pills, study shows

NASA to announce new discoveries about ocean worlds

The TRAPPIST-1 star, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it.

Astronomers discover 7 Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby star

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Why NASA sent a superbug to the space station

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The universe is about to get a little more crowded with planets

Ancient tissue found in 195 million-year-old dinosaur rib

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly performs the Fine Motor Skills Test as part of his One-Year Mission. This task tests Kelly's ability to use his fine motor skills - pointing, dragging, shape tracing, and pinch-rotate -- on an Apple iPad after extended time in space.
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Twins study: How one-year mission affected astronaut's health

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Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way's elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Previously, our galaxy was thought to possess four major arms.

This artist's concept illustrates the new view of the Milky Way, along with other findings presented at the 212th American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis, Mo. The galaxy's two major arms (Scutum-Centaurus and Perseus) can be seen attached to the ends of a thick central bar, while the two now-demoted minor arms (Norma and Sagittarius) are less distinct and located between the major arms. The major arms consist of the highest densities of both young and old stars; the minor arms are primarily filled with gas and pockets of star-forming activity.

The artist's concept also includes a new spiral arm, called the "Far-3 kiloparsec arm," discovered via a radio-telescope survey of gas in the Milky Way. This arm is shorter than the two major arms and lies along the bar of the galaxy.

Our sun lies near a small, partial arm called the Orion Arm, or Orion Spur, located between the Sagittarius and Perseus arms.

Milky Way galaxy is being pushed across the universe

Is this ancient, bag-like sea creature our earliest ancestor?

What life was like for a medieval leper

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The Kepler-16 binary star system creates a double sunset like the one on Luke's home world Tatooine. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle

Illustrators get us up close with 'Tatooine' and other alien planets

M.D. Anderson cancer children designed flight suit cover. Photo Date: May 19, 2016. Location: Building 8, Room 183 - Photo Studio. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

Hope, Courage and Unity: The story behind the young cancer patients who painted space suits

A false color image of PGC 1000714 New Galaxy.

Ultra-rare galaxy could be 'one of a kind'

Astronaut Scott Parazynski participates in the third scheduled session of extravehicular activity as construction continues on the International Space Station. During the 7-hour, 8-minute spacewalk Parazynski and astronaut Doug Wheelock (out of frame), installed the P6 truss segment with its set of solar arrays to its permanent home, installed a spare main bus switching unit on a stowage platform, and performed a few get-ahead tasks.

Going to space is a real pain in the back

A week after Antarctica evacuation, Buzz Aldrin released from hospital

American astronaut John Glenn becomes the oldest person in space during the STS-95 mission on board the shuttle Discovery, 1998. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth, dies at 95

Is there a new human species waiting to be discovered?

Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin evacuated from South Pole

A mosaic of the Schiaparelli Hemisphere of the planet Mars, showing the Schiaparelli Crater, circa 1980.

Mars mission astronauts could experience brain damage, study says

Peering through the thick dust clouds of the galactic bulge an international team of astronomers has revealed the unusual mix of stars in the stellar cluster known as Terzan 5. The new results indicate that Terzan 5 is one of the bulge's primordial building blocks, most likely the relic of the very early days of the Milky Way.

'Galactic fossil' of early Milky Way discovered

HOUSTON - AUGUST 28: A sculptor's rendering of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis is displayed as part of an exhibition that includes the 3.2 million year old fossilized remains of "Lucy", the most complete example of the species, at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, August 28, 2007 in Houston, Texas. The exhibition is the first for the fossil outside of Ethiopia and has generated criticism among the museum community and others that believe the fossil is too fragile to be moved from it's home country. (Photo by Dave Einsel/Getty Images)

How did Lucy, our early human ancestor, die 3 million years ago?

Artist's conception of the binary system with three giant planets discovered, where one star hosts two planets and the other hosts the third. The system represents the smallest-separation binary in which both stars host planets that has ever been observed.

Three giant exoplanets found orbiting twin stars

The dark galaxy Dragonfly 44. The image on the left is a wide view of the galaxy taken with the Gemini North telescope using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) as part of a Fast Turnaround program. The close-up on the right is from the same very deep image, revealing the large, elongated galaxy, and halo of spherical clusters of stars around the galaxy's core, similar to the halo that surrounds our Milky Way Galaxy. Dragonfly 44 is very faint for its mass, and consists almost entirely of Dark Matter.

'Dark twin' of the Milky Way galaxy discovered

An artist's conception of Planet X

Quest for Planet Nine turns up 'extreme objects' on edge of solar system

This artist's impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The double star Alpha Centauri AB also appears in the image to the upper-right of Proxima itself. Proxima b is a little more massive than the Earth and orbits in the habitable zone around Proxima Centauri, where the temperature is suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface.

Closest potentially habitable planet to our solar system found

Observations suggest Venus may have had water oceans in its distant past. A land-ocean pattern like that above was used in a climate model to show how storm clouds could have shielded ancient Venus from strong sunlight and made the planet habitable.

Was Venus once habitable?

Taking a closer look at new Earth-like planets for the first time

Artist's portrayal of a classical nova explosion.

Watching a star explode after 'hibernating'

Discovering the 'final frontier' of our universe

'X' shape in Milky Way confirmed via Twitter

NASA's K2 mission finds more than 100 new planets

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New Mars 2020 rover will be able to 'hear' the Red Planet

New evidence of where life might exist on Mars

Rare 'Frankenstein' galaxy discovered

Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, left, and his identical twin brother Mark Kelly, pose for a photograph Thursday, March 26, 2015 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Scott Kelly, and Russian Cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time (March 27 Eastern time.) As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Photo Credit (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Scott and Mark Kelly get personal about spaceflight

While many other images of the famous Crab Nebula nebula have focused on the filaments in the outer part of the nebula, this image shows the very heart of the Crab Nebula including the central neutron star — it is the rightmost of the two bright stars near the centre of this image. The rapid motion of the material nearest to the central star is revealed by the subtle rainbow of colours in this time-lapse image, the rainbow effect being due to the movement of material over the time between one image and another.

Hubble showcases Crab Nebula's 'beating heart'

An artistic impression of the planet Kepler-1647b. The planet is nearly identical to Jupiter in both size and mass, the planet is expected to be roughly similar in appearance. But it is much warmer - Kepler-1647b is in the habitable zone.

NASA's Kepler discovers 'Tatooine' planet orbiting two suns

Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA rest in a chair outside of the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft just minutes after he and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (Kazakh time). Kelly and Kornienko completed an International Space Station record year-long mission to collect valuable data on the effect of long duration weightlessness on the human body that will be used to formulate a human mission to Mars. Volkov returned after spending six months on the station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Astronauts ask Congress to take care of their health

'Jet' disrupts one of Saturn's rings

New elements on the periodic table are named

The team from Passaic County Technical Institute made a red pepper risotto dish.

Students create astronaut meal that's out of this world

SOFIA/GREAT spectrum of oxygen [O I] superimposed on an image of Mars from the MAVEN mission. The amount of atomic oxygen computed from this SOFIA data is about half the amount expected.
Credits: SOFIA/GREAT spectrum: NASA/DLR/USRA/DSI/MPIfR/GREAT Consortium/ MPIfS/Rezac et al. 2015. Mars image: NASA/MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission)

Atomic oxygen detected in Martian atmosphere

This artist's impression shows an imagined view from the surface one of the three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth that were discovered using the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory. These worlds have sizes and temperatures similar to those of Venus and Earth and are the best targets found so far for the search for life outside the Solar System. They are the first planets ever discovered around such a tiny and dim star. In this view one of the inner planets is seen in transit across the disc of its tiny and dim parent star.

Three Earth-like planets discovered orbiting dwarf star

On Dec. 24, 2013, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer, participates in the second of two spacewalks, spread over a four-day period, which were designed to allow the crew to change out a degraded pump module on the exterior of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. He was joined on both spacewalks by NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, whose image shows up in Hopkins' helmet visor.

Our bodies in space: Zero gravity weighs heavy on your health

NASA's Kepler discovers 1,284 planets

Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA rest in a chair outside of the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft just minutes after he and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (Kazakh time). Kelly and Kornienko completed an International Space Station record year-long mission to collect valuable data on the effect of long duration weightlessness on the human body that will be used to formulate a human mission to Mars. Volkov returned after spending six months on the station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Scott Kelly answers your questions about life in space, Mars mission

Ground personnel help International Space Station (ISS) crew member Scott Kelly of the U.S. to get off the Soyuz TMA-18M space capsule after landing near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. U.S. astronaut Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth on Wednesday after spending almost a year in space in a ground-breaking experiment foreshadowing a potential manned mission to Mars. (Krill Kudryavtsev/Pool Photo via AP)

Astronaut Scott Kelly: Mars mission is 'doable'

Astronaut Scott Kelly on a spacewalk on November 6, 2015, as taken by fellow astronaut Kjell Lindgren.

Scott Kelly from space: 'I feel like I've lived my whole life up here'

Just before the 15th anniversary of continuous human presence on the International Space Station on Nov. 2, 2015, U.S. astronaut and commander of the current Expedition 45 crew, Scott Kelly, is breaking spaceflight records. On Friday, Oct. 16, Kelly begins his 383rd day living in space, surpassing U.S. astronaut Mike FinckeÕs record of 382 cumulative days. Kelly will break another record Oct. 29 on his 216th consecutive day in space, when he will surpass astronaut Michael Lopez-AlegriaÕs record for the single-longest spaceflight by an American. Lopez-Alegria spent 215 days in space as commander of the Expedition 14 crew in 2006.

In this July 12 photograph, Kelly is seen inside the Cupola, a special module which provides a 360-degree viewing of the Earth and the space station. On each additional day he spends in orbit as part of his one-year mission, Kelly will add to his record and to our understanding of the effects of long-duration spaceflight.

Kelly is scheduled to return to Earth on March 3, 2016, by which time he will have compiled 522 total days living in space during four missions.

Scott Kelly from space: Earth's atmosphere 'looks very, very fragile'

Marvel's Captain America: Civil War

L to R: Falcon/Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), Ant-Man/Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Hawkeye/Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner), Captain America/Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), and Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan)

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What would it take to become a real-life superhero?

Why you may not recognize Clark Kent as Superman

Skeletal remains of an individual from Velia are shown.

Ancient Roman DNA reveals modern malaria parasite

The image shows a mummy discovered through collaboration with the Lithuanian Mummy Project in 2015. Samples from this mummy were found to house degraded samples of Variola, the virus that causes smallpox.

Oldest smallpox DNA discovered in 17th-century child mummy

Health & Wellness

Princess Violet

When kids lose hair, wigs transform them into princesses, superheroes

Mystery condition gives way to bright future for 10-year-old

The Moon is seen passing in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of South America, Africa, and Europe.

New imaging finds crescent-shaped eye damage in woman who viewed eclipse

2-year-old defies odds, learns to walk after rare stage 4 cancer

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Caption: 3D4MD 3D-printed the first medical supplies onboard the International Space Station on January 11, 2017. 3D4MD crowdsources and creates cost-optimized printable designs of medical resources to treat an ill or injured astronaut on-site during a long space mission.

The 'doctor's bag of the future' could be a 3-D printer

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Scientists replace skin of 'butterfly child' with rare genetic disease

Women in midlife aren't sleeping enough, study says

Warned he would die by age 10, he just graduated college

Emma Watson attends the world premiere of Disney's Beauty and the Beast at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 2, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / VALERIE MACON (Photo credit should read VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images)

Classics keep top spot on list of most popular US baby names, but ...

The Force is strong with this 4-year-old fighting cancer

Baby Dominique celebrating her first birthday early.

Baby Dominique reunited with family after surgery to remove parasitic twin

'We were all a family': Preemie mom's poem to thank hospital staff

Foster mom Nancy Swabb, who has raised two adopted daughters, took Dominique into her home on February 5, 2017, more than a month before her surgery.

Risky surgery separates 10-month-old from parasitic twin

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - MAY 31: Actor Bill Paxton attends the 5th Annual Critics' Choice Television Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on May 31, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

Bill Paxton's death caused by stroke after surgery

Jill Lefferman, pictured with her family, is " grateful to be alive and well at her son's bar mitzvah celebration."

Cold caps help breast cancer patients avoid trauma of hair loss

Surviving birth, struggling to live

Researchers believe that the simple spinning mechanics of a whirligig toy could help diagnose blood diseases in the developing world.

20-cent, whirligig-inspired Paperfuge could help diagnose diseases

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'There is no good card for this': What to say and do when bad things happen

The mesentery: A 'new' organ you didn't know you had

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Intimate ballet portraits showcase the 'Art of Movement'

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Think you're a great gift-giver? Probably not

Tonina is a woman in her fifties. At the age of three she was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy.

A mother's devotion to her disabled daughter

Twinkies, Palmer Candy join recall over salmonella concerns

Miami is free of locally transmitted Zika virus, governor says

Eloise and Ward, along with another CountryHouse resident, Joyce, participate in the memory-care facility's
various programs, including attending gym classes. The facility believes that an active body and mind is one
way to prolonging the side effects of Alzheimer's.

Hand in hand: Couple fights Alzheimer's together

The doctor on the front line of the migrant crisis

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This is what emotions look like in your brain

Wildfires are burning in the Carolinas. One is located near Table Rock State Park in Pickens County, South Carolina, and the other named Party Rock fire is burning near Lake Lure, North Carolina. The following videos and images have been cleared from use from these locations.

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Wildfire smoke and your health: Do you need to worry?

GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 12: A man suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder uses a light box in his office to combat the illness on October 12 2005 in Glasgow, Scotland. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), or winter depression, is a mood disorder related to the change in the seasons and the resulting reduction of exposure to daylight. The end of British Summer time, when clocks go back one hour at the end of October, will see most people making their daily commute in darkness both ways. With winter nights stretching to 19 hours in the UK, and Scotland's often inclement weather, it is estimated that the 'Winter Blues' can affect up to 20% of the population. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Transitioning from daylight saving time could increase depression

3-year-old dies after tragic window blind cord accident

Syringe exchanges help reduce rates of HIV, CDC says

Discovered Beatrix Potter tale 'Kitty-in-Boots' releases

BEIJING - AUGUST 24: Ryan Hall of the United States competes in the Men's Marathon held at the National Stadium during Day 16 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 24, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images)

After the Olympics: The next paths for elite athletes

Painting allows blind artist to see a world of color

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Turning Points: Together in sickness, married in health

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Opening up a world of art for the blind with 3-D technology

As temperatures sizzle, fireworks even more risky

South Pole Medical evacuation flight, June 22. The Twin Otter aircraft flying an Antarctic medical-evacuation mission has left the National Science Foundation's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station en route to the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Station.

Risky medical flight from South Pole arrives in Chile

English actress Emma Watson poses during the photocall of Hispano-Chilean director Alejandro Amenabar's movie "Regression" in Madrid on August 27, 2015. AFP PHOTO/ GERARD JULIEN (Photo credit should read GERARD JULIEN/AFP/Getty Images)

New arrivals: The most popular baby names of 2015

Solihull April 2016 - Andy Allsopp, 29 years old, team FC EGCO, The great star of Fat football league in action.

Soccer league pits man versus fat

Photographer 'illuminates' rare cancers

Active-duty U.S. soldiers, veteran summit Mount Everest

Sandra LeDuc captured this photo of a triumphant and relieved Jon Kedrowski reaching the summit of Mount Everest on May 26, 2012.

What happens to your body on Mount Everest

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100-pound weight loss helps 'broken' man rebuild

Bullying is a 'serious public health problem,' report says

In May, 1st Lt. Elyse Ping Medvigy, 2nd Lt. Harold Earls and retired Staff Sgt. Sergeant Chad Jukes (left to right) will attempt to summit Mount Everest as part of U.S. Expeditions and Explorations to raise awareness for veterans struggling with PTSD and suicide. Capt. Matt Hickey (far right), who participated in a team-building practice climb with them on Mount Rainier in Washington in August, is the CEO of USX and will provide ground support.

Soldiers, wounded veteran start Everest climb to put spotlight on PTSD

Four journeys through infertility: Where they are now

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The Endless Table: How recipes can keep your memories alive

How a family fought cancer together

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Portrait of a 6-year-old artist with autism and her therapy cat

Global study lays groundwork for daily statin usage to prevent heart disease

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To minimize the discomfort to the eyes, Alex has to put special eye drops at least 10 times a day.

Living in shadows: A child's rare disorder

Angela and her daughter Lauryn laugh together during a trip to the mall in Kansas City.

'Angela's Beautiful Life': One mom's struggle with mental illness

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Why daylight saving time can be bad for your health

The nostalgia 'Force' is strong with 'Star Wars' fans

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After experimental treatment, 24-year-old is learning how to live

Turning failure into a recipe for success

Healthy New Year's resolutions aren't just for adults

Uganda. Kampala. Ritah, 27, an employee in Maama Lususu's salon is being worked upon by her colleagues.
Ritah has been working for a year in Maama Lususu's Salon in Kampala. She has
extremely bleached skin with many infections. Many of the substances which are used as a bleaching agent,
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Light and shadows: Skin bleaching in Uganda

10-year-old twins fight leukemia together

Getting a job saved this 19-year-old's life

Sandra LeDuc captured this photo of a triumphant and relieved Jon Kedrowski reaching the summit of Mount Everest on May 26, 2012.

What happens to your body on Mount Everest

How yoga changed her life

Teen overcomes anorexia through yoga

When it came to kissing a girl, I started laughing. Oleg, 27 years old, at his home, March 2014, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

Gay Russians living in the shadows

These heroes' superpower: Preventing the spread of HIV

'About dying': The side of death we don't see

Photographer Rick Guidotti's "Positve Exposure" projects aims to "celebrate the richness and beauty of human diversity."

Seeing the beauty in genetic differences

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Embracing life with a bucket list

The puppets and table with its "cave" used during the study.

Are 3-year-olds mind-reading, justice-seeking superheroes?

Spending puberty in a shell

Defeating the cycle of self-sabotage that began with childhood of abuse

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Mother, son both fighting cancer

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Bullying by peers has effects later in life

- VANCOUVER, BC - DECEMBER 27: Atmosphere during Zedd's performance at Contact Winter Music Festival at BC Place on December 27, 2014 in Vancouver, Canada. (Photo by Andrew Chin/Getty Images)

Could creativity and socializing preserve your memory?

Nikki and Matt Cobleigh with their children, Kai and Lilly, and surrogate Angela Haymond.

At a crossroads: 4 infertility journeys

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Coping with infertility: Don't give up hope, and more advice

Your medical marijuana questions answered

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60 years after a vaccine, new technology may finally eradicate polio

398323 03: A sign hangs in the offices of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America December 7, 2001 in New York City. About 200 Planned Parenthood facilities received anthrax hoax letters last month in Fed Ex packages. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Planned Parenthood: Fast facts and revealing numbers

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Remembering forgotten veterans of World War I

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Former racehorses get a second chance at life
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